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What intentional eyecare looks like: Lessons from Aravind Eye Hospital

12 December 2025 | Owais Fazal | EYE - General

Jet-lagged, following 24 hours of travel from Boston, sweat rolled down my forehead only to return moments after I had wiped it away. Even the English signs seemed suddenly indecipherable in the humid midday heat of Pondicherry, India. I’ll never...

An ophthalmology elective in Kandy, Sri Lanka

27 October 2025 | Molly Bond | EYE - General

On my first day at The Centre for Sight, Kandy General Hospital, I observed an enucleation. The surgeons worked with quiet precision, preserving the extraocular muscles for prosthesis placement. But when the time came, it became clear that the prosthesis...

Orbis achieves WHO trachoma elimination threshold in Sheka Zone, Southwest Ethiopia

6 February 2026 | international, charity

Ahead of World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day on 30 January, international eye care charity Orbis has announced that it has achieved the World Health Organisation (WHO) threshold for eliminating trachoma as a public health concern in Sheka Zone, Southwest...

Coming to terms with AI

1 August 2019 | Rod McNeil | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General

A machine might be called intelligent if its response to questions could convince a person that it was human, a test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 [1]. The author considers potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning...

Orbis teams up with the Alcon Foundation and OMEGA to improve eyecare in Zambia

29 September 2023 | orbis, Flying Eye Hospital, alcon, OMEGA, Zambia, Africa

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital returns to Zambia for a three-week training project in Lusaka coinciding with World Sight Day on October 12.

“We try our best”, but we should still be open and transparent

1 February 2018 | Vishnu B Madhok | EYE - General

In a recent discussion with colleagues, someone recognised that many, when asked what they do, say, “I am a doctor”. Rather than “I work as a doctor”. This sense of belonging, pride and duty comes with responsibility. Becoming a surgeon,...

Cataract surgery and the carbon footprint: Lessons in sustainability from Aravind Eye Hospitals, India

5 February 2026 | Thulasiraj Ravilla, Pammal T Ashwin | international, services

Climate change is among the most urgent global health threats. In 2016, environmental factors caused 13.7 million deaths worldwide, underscoring the link between planetary and human health [1]. Healthcare itself is not blameless. Globally, the sector accounts for 4.4% of...

VISION 2020 LINKS Programme: the Madagascar-Leeds LINK

1 December 2014 | Aditi Das, John Buchan, Marcia Zondervan | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Madagascar is a fascinating and culturally rich island which has an ‘exotic’ status in most people’s eyes. Yet it is among the poorest countries in the world. According to the World Bank, 92% of the population live on less than...

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