Right to Sight Advisors: Dr Nag Rao

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Dr Nag Rao
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Chairman of the Board of Governors and President of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), Dr Rao is a leader in VISION 2020: The Right to Sight campaign. Dr Rao has recently been selected for many International Blindness Prevention Awards , the most recent being in November 2007, the Pisart Prize in New York for his outstanding contribution to world blindness elimination.

Dr Gullapalli "Nag" Rao is known around the world for his humanitarian work in the field of blindness prevention. After graduating from Guntur Medical College in India, Dr Rao became a Fellow in Ophthalmology at the Tufts-New England Medical Centre, Boston.

He returned to India in 1986 and founded the outstanding LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad (www.lvpei.org). Dr Rao holds one of the Chairs of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis; President of the Asia Pacific Region and Member of the Board of the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (1995-present); President-Elect of the Asia Pacific Society for Cornea & Refractive Surgery.

He is a member of International Advisory Committee of the International Federation of Eye Banks and Orbis International. He has received numerous awards including:

Ranbaxy Research Award for contributions to medical science (1995);
Outstanding Service Award of the Association of Asian Indians in Ophthalmology in the U.S. (1984);

Senior Honour Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (1998);
Honorary Doctorate of Science from University of New South Wales, Australia (2001);

First 'Global Visionary in Ophthalmology' Award of Bausch & Lomb (2003);

“Fellow qua surgeon” of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow (2003); and many more..

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The Times Article

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Maintenance Training Course in Cameroon

March 2009 - Aravind, the Ministry of Health of Cameroon, the German cooperation GTZ and Right to Sight partnered to organise a training course on the maintenance and repair of ophthalmic equipment in Cameroon.
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BUC Student Placement to Mbingo Hospital Cameroon

March 09' - The Buskerud University College (BUC) in Norway approached Right to Sight to partner on an optometry project in Africa. Right to Sight, eager to help with the exchange facilitated that the Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Cameroon be used as the location.
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Article from Life Time Newspaper Cameroon

Apr 09'

An Article written in Cameroon in the Life Time Newspaper in April documenting the successful completion of the Equipment Maintenance Course run in collaboration with Right to SIght

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Orissa - Success Stories in Eye Care

April 2009 - Right to Sight has been involved in the capacity building and sustainable growth of JMJ-GVN Hospital since 2007. Since getting involved the Hospital has performed 9,790 surgeries and seen an incredible 70,000 Out-Patients. JMJ-GVN was the first partner of Right to Sight in Eastern India.
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Sun Business Post Article

May 09'

Article from the SUNDAY BUSINESS POST in Ireland regarding the Pilates fundraising event run by Right to Sight in May 09'
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Article in The Irish Independent - June 09'

The Trinity Sight team, finalist of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup global student technology competition, has devised an inexpensive and innovative technology solution to the training shortage using off-the-shelf products, including remotes from the Nintendo Wii games console and a laptop.
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IAPB Meeting Cameroon 25th - 28th May 2009

For the first time, the members of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) organised a meeting for the Central Africa sub-region. This meeting was held in Limbé in the Southwest region of Cameroon.
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Exciting Development at MGMH, Durban, South Africa

In collaboration with local partners the KwaZulu-Natal Eye Care Coalition and the Department of Health, RTS has this month started services at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital, in the northern suburbs of Durban.
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MSF- GALKACYO EYE CAMP

Phase 1: Screening 24 March -28 April 2010
Screening was done by two ophthalmic technicians from Al-Nur Eye Hospital in Mogadishu supported by the staff of Galkacyo South Hospital.

Phase 2: Surgery 22 – 29 April 2010
Three Ophthalmic surgeons and six Ophthalmic technicians were the surgical team. Gallkacyo...

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