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Ophthalmology
Tertiary care, provided at no charge to the patient.
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The department of ophthalmology began functioning on 23 of November 1994 with the blessings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. The department was set up with the vision to make available the finest in eye care in the world to its patients totally free of cost. The department has a modern operation theatre complex with three operation theatres, an advanced laser unit and other various other state of the art equipment for delivering quality patient care.
FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Facilities not available :
- Refractive surgery
- Corneal transplantation
The selection of cases for surgery depends upon the visual prognosis effects at the time of screening.
- Number of beds in the wards : 42
- Number of beds in ICU : 05
Average number of surgeries per day: 12
Average number of surgeries per month: 300
The department has visiting surgeons from abroad in the fields of squint and vitreo-retinal surgeries.
For any queries or an appointment please mail to enquirypg@sssihms.org.in along with the scanned copies of the latest medical reports.
PATIENT CARE
For inpatients, medicines, nursing care and diet is given free of cost during their stay. The patient is admitted one day prior to and discharged on the day after surgery after being explained post-operative care and medications.
- Investigational facilities
- IOL master
- Anterior segment OCT
- Slit lamp photography
- Humphrey visual field analyzer
- Optical coherence tomography (including OCTA)
- Fundus photography
- Fundus fluorescence angiography
ACADEMICS
Every year two candidates are admitted every year and trained for DNB in Ophthalmology
For more information please click here.
Conference Highlights
The department of Ophthalmology conducts many conferences from time to time. These conferences see that participation of top faculty from across the country
FACULTY
Dr Anuj Sharma, Addt Senior Consultant
Dr Girija Gurung, Consultant
Dr Arpita Nayak, Senior resident
Dr S. Lakshminaryanan, Senior Medical Officer (Honorary)
VISITING FACULTY
Dr Abha Kumar, MD, San Jose, CL, US
Dr. Dilip Patel, MD, Buffalo, New York , US
Dr. Sanjeev Dewan, MD, OH, US
Dr. Sailesh Kaushal, MD, FL, US
Dr Amit Chhabra, DNB, FRCS, Liverpool, UK
Prof (Dr) Usha Singh, MS, Oculoplastic surgeon, PGIMER Chandigarh
Dr. Nikhil Kumar Mohanty, MS, Bhubaneswar, Orissa
Dr. Hemanth Murthy MS, Retina Institute of Karnataka, Bangalore, Karnataka
Dr. Sasirekha M, MS, Tanjavur, TN
Several senior ophthalmology surgeons visit from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, as part of an exchange programme
Several senior ophthalmology surgeons visit from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, as part of an exchange programme
As the hospital is a tertiary care hospital, all patients must bring their previous medical reports. Outstation patients will be seen by prior online appointment only. Patients can call 0804710 4600 for guidance.