Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Correction:Bola tinubu and eye-care ,India and czech

Yes its good to give praise wherever is due.we are  no longer kids at 63 years. Cornelius Hamelberg  thank you

On Monday, September 11, 2023, cornelius...@gmail.com <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth:

"By their fruits ye shall know them!"

This Is the kind of good news that should not be hidden under a bowl:/bushel : 

President Tinubu approves 5 million eyeglasses for Nigerians free of charge

 

Oriire/Kudos President Bola Ahmed Tinubu 

BTW, I'd go for the Awolowo/ Mahatma Gandhi/ John Lennon frames…

On Monday, 11 September 2023 at 11:32:58 UTC+2 Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth wrote:

Dear President  Bola Tinubu

Opthalmology is the most prestigious  of the medical specialities. It us to medicine what the game of golf is to recreation and sports. .

I would also  like to salute the optometrists and opticians for their support services here in london and ibadan.

I suffer from photophobia, keratokonus and cataracts.

I have been an eye care patient  for 40 years

 The eye the King and Queen of the body.and treated  by some of the best opthamologists  in the world here in London  at the Moorfields  eye hospital  and in ibadan  at vision house  by Professor  Oyin  Olurin  the Doyen of  Opthalmology  and Dr Ben Ajayi  of Alawiye  house, mokola,ibsdan, ex president Opthalmology  society  of nigeria ,So I can appreciate  your giant  strides  in the eye health sector with your recent approval  of 5 milion glasses  for nigerians  free of charge +

Following your  India  trip,where 550 milion indians have eye care problems  I would want  nigeria to explore the Aravind eye care  business  model

If Coca-Cola can sell billions of sodas and McDonald's can sell billions of burger, why can't Aravind sell millions of sight-restoring operations, and, eventually, the belief in human perfection?" – quipped Dr. Venkatawamy (endearingly known as Dr. V) in an interview to Fast Company. Dr. V had a vision – to restore the gift of sight to millions of poor blind people through the Aravind Eye-Care system ("Aravind"). Aravind's business model is based on his vision to solve the blindness problem regardless of the patient's ability to pay. Aravind has been able to successfully execute this business model over the last forty years to become the largest provider of eye-care services in the world.

Context according   to the web

India is home to one-third of the world's blind population with close to 200 million Indians needing eye-care. In 80% of the cases, blindness is caused by factors which can be corrected. Dr. V set out to address this problem of curable blindness and created an institution which performs 400,000 eye surgeries a year.

Business Model

Aravind has been able to develop a self-funding healthcare delivery model where it creates value for its entire customer base but captures the value only from a part of it. Aravind is able to provide free-of-cost or at cost, high-quality service for 50-60% of its patients who are poor or 'non-paying' by using the profits generated from the 40-50% of the paying patients. 

President  Bola tinubu.the next is Czech 

According  to the web

Most doctors also argue that the reason why the Czech Republic is one of the world leaders in ophthalmology and why many people from abroad travel to the Czech Republic is its historical achievement in ophthalmology:

One of the biggest Czech achievements in ophthalmology was the first successful corneal transplant performed by Edward Zim in 1905. This was the first successful organ transplant surgery in the world and was very significant as it proved that organ transplantation is possible. Many surgeons then started research in transplanting other organs. This surgery is still performed today.

The other achievement in Czech ophthalmology that is of great importance was the development of contact lenses and its manufacturing. This was developed by Otto Wichterle in 1961. Otto Wichterle has succeeded in making the first hydrogel contact lenses. He made them with a homemade machine. In the first 4 months of 1962, he made over 5500 contact lenses. In 1965 an American company bought rights for manufacturing contact lenses in the USA. One of the companies was Bausch+Lomb. It is the same company that is now a clinical testing partner with the new Medicem lenses.

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