Medicine & Surgery
Aravind high-volume cataract surgery model
1976 onwardG. Venkataswamy (Aravind Eye Care)Aravind Eye Hospitals; Aurolab lenses (1992)Tamil Nadu
1976
An assembly-line style eye-care system with low-cost locally made intraocular lenses.
- Dated
- 1976
- As scholars put it
- 1976 onward
- Originator
- G. Venkataswamy (Aravind Eye Care)
- Source text
- Aravind Eye Hospitals; Aurolab lenses (1992)
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
A delivery-model innovation rather than a new surgical technique.
Path to modern innovation
Restores sight at a fraction of Western cost.
Builds on
1,000 BCETransmission
Studied by business schools and copied abroad.
References
- 1Harvard Business School case (1993)
Further reading
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