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Now in its twelfth year of operation, Asia’s first international training facility for the propagation of sustainable and effective models of eye care continues to reach out to the developing world by sharing its expertise ever more broadly.
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Policy Advocacy and Contribution to Eye Care Programmes
At national level
- Contributed to the design of the World Bank Cataract Blindness Control Programme
- Participation in National Coordination and Advisory Council
- Conducted the Beneficiary Assessment Survey for the state of Tamilnadu in 1995 as part of the World Bank Project
- Facility survey and rapid assessment survey in Maharashtra
- Cataract Evaluation Surveys in Kerala (Palghat) and Tamilnadu (Tirunelveli and Sivagangai)
- Assessment of Cataract Surgical Records in Orissa
- Curriculum Development Workshop for training District Programme Managers
- National Workshop for Development of Curriculum for training paramedical ophthalmic assistants
- Second National Convention of District Blindness Control Society
- Workshop for developing and updating course materials for orientation training for District Programme Managers
- Workshop on Distance Learning Methods in Ophthalmic Techniques
- Cataract Programme Evaluation Protocol Development Workshop
- Symposium on participation of volunteer organizations in blindness control
- Training on National Survey on Blindness
At international level
At the international level, LAICO has worked with eye hospitals in Cambodia (Siem Reap), Malawi (Lilongwe),Tanzania (Moshi) and Egypt (Cairo) to train staff in the clinical area, service marketing and administrative systems that ensure high volume and high quality of eye care services.
In addition, LAICO coordinated the establishment of two IOL microsurgery training centres in Nigeria (Kaduna) and Bangladesh (Dhaka) to spread this training in a cost effective manner in those regions. In order to meet with the high demand from West Africa for training in Instruments Maintenance as special course “Training of Trainers” was conducted at Madurai. Aravind also participated in teaching the Planning and Management module at ICEH, London.
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