A Pyramidal Model
The LVPEI Pyramid
People have to travel long distances to access eye care services across the developing world. When LVPEI was founded in the 1986, our offer of high-quality care at no cost, many people living in remote rural areas found travel to Hyderabad expensive and prohibitive.
LVPEI’s response was a multi-tier, pyramidal model of eye care service delivery.
The Tiers of the network
- At the base of the pyramid are Vision Guardians that represent community involvement. Vision guardians comprise trained young people who keep a close vigil on the eye health of about 5,000 persons within communities, through door-to-door surveys and other informal means.
- Secondary eye care centres are networked to the Vision Centers and each serves a population of 500,000 persons. These centres provide care that can diagnose the complete range of ophthalmological diseases and offer high quality surgical care for cataract – the most common cause of blindness. These centres draw upon local talent too, with team members recruited from the local community and trained at LVPEI’s advanced tertiary centres.
- Tertiary care hospitals / Training centres are linked to secondary centres and each serves a population of 5 million persons. These centres provide a comprehensive range of services and also serve as training centres to the secondary centres.
- A Centre of Excellence is a quaternary care centre linked to tertiary centers and serves a population of 50 million persons. These centres treat complex diseases, train the trainers in subspecialties & rehabilitation and engage in advocacy.
Meet the team
GPR ICARE brings together a dedicated, compassionate, and expert team across the LVPEI network.