Patient stories

At the heart of LVPEI service delivery is the determination to put our patients’ needs before our own.

Read and watch life-changing stories of patients who have benefited from our care…

Varun and his mother
Blue eyes

When Varun was 3 months old, his mother noticed that his left eye had suddenly turned blue. Terrified, his parents brought him to LVPEI’s Vision Centre in their village in Nagarkurnool in Telangana…

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Baby hands
A Stem cell transplant for a child!

When their child couldn’t see faces or colours, her family searched everywhere for answers. A donor stem‑cell transplant offered them hope! A Keratolimbal Allograft (KLAL) procedure transplants healthy limbal stem cells from a donor restoring vision…

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27
years of excellence in eye care
36.89m
served
50%
of services provided free of cost
282
eye care centres
Mwila Kakana
Intercontinental Bonds

Mwila Kakana, a Zambian, regains sight thanks to a donated cornea. Mwila shares his decades-long struggle with vision issues: from early headaches in childhood, multiple surgeries across countries, to a threatening eye infection in 2025…

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Poshiram
Poshiram can see!

Dr Prashanti, drawn to the remote Gond tribal village of Gissiguda, unexpectedly became part of young Poshiram’s life-changing story. Diagnosed with developmental cataract six-year-old Poshiram had been living in dark. A community brought him to LVPEI…

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