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February 2015
L V Prasad Eye Institute
12th Secondary Centre at Dhulipala
Obituary
LVPEI’s 12th Secondary Service Centre
- Edward and Soona Brown Eye Centre was inaugurated on 12th January 2015 at
Dhulipalla village, Sattenapalli mandal,
Guntur district. Dignitaries present
included donors Mr Edward Brown and
Ms Soona Brown, Member of Parliament
Sri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, Speaker of the
Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly
Sri Kodela Sivaprasad Rao, Health Minister
of AP Dr Kamineni Srinivas, Member of AP Legislative Council Smt Nannapaneni Rajakumari and
others.
The LVPEI family deeply mourns the loss of John
Hyman on 16 January 2015. John and Mavis
Hyman funded the Miriam Hyman Children’s Eye
Care Centre (MHCECC) at LVPEI Bhubaneswar in
memory of their daughter Miriam who was killed in
the “7/7” London bombings of 7 July 2005. It was
John’s support of the idea that saw the setting up
of the Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust and his wish
to use the funds in a developing country to bring
services where they could best be used. The LVPEI
family will remain committed to John Hyman’s
wish by ever expanding the activities of the Miriam
Hyman Children’s Eye Care Centre.
Awards & Honours
Governor’s Felicitation for World Record of 20,000 Cornea
Transplants
The Governor of Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh Sri ESL Narasimhan felicitated the
Cornea and Eye Bank teams on 14 January
2015 for creating history by becoming the first
Institute ever in the world to achieve 20,000
corneal transplants across its network. He
lauded the Institute’s efforts and commitment
to quality eye care. Dr Gullapalli N Rao said
it was significant to achieve this distinction
in a country where organ donation and
transplantation have long been considered as insurmountable challenges. The dedicated team at
LVPEI has contributed to the evolution of modern eye banking and specialized cornea care in
India.
Srinivas Marmamula won the Wellcome Trust/ DBT
India Alliance Early Career fellowship to support
his research on ‘Visual impairment in the elderly’
for the next five years.
Subhadra Jalali was the Guest Speaker at the
Banaras Hindu University Old Students’ Association
Hyderabad’s event to mark Mahatma Pandit Madan
Mohan Malviya’s Jayanti on January 11, 2015 at
the DRDO Auditorium in Kanchanbagh.
Soumyava Basu has been invited to the Center of
Excellence on Extrapulmonary TB at AIIMS, New
Delhi, to formulate guidelines for diagnosis and
management of various forms of extrapulmonary
TB.
Ramam Atmakuri attended the Annual Volunteer
Planning meeting of the PMI Technology Advisory
Group (TechAG), 21-25 January in USA.
Alumna Kopal Mittal won the Dr Mohan Lal
memorial gold medal in Paediatric Ophthalmology
at the 49th Annual Conference of the UP State
Ophthalmic Society 20-21 December 2014 in
Noida.
Dear Dr Subhadra Jalali,
One year back I had just left LVPEI after an amazing
ROP fellowship and a great time in your superb
country. The major difference in these 12 months is my
profession now. I am currently placed in the regional
ROP center and work on ROP in OPD and NICU in my
city in Italy.
I don’t know how to thank you and your team after you gifted me the best gift of my life with
treating my son Ngilek Taan Seng. I was worried and tense after a doctor in Guwahati told me that
it was incurable but after I came to LVPEI I was thrilled with the staff and doctors. I was surprised
when you took so much care to explain everything before the operation and after, despite being a
very busy person. You even gave your number to contact you if required and made us feel good every
time we spoke to you regarding our son’s eye problem. We will always remember the love and care
we got from LVPEI.
This adventure started with a scholarship in July.
The beginning was not at all easy. I guess you may
remember the feeling of starting a new path alone,
deciding when laser was needed and when waiting was
better, dealing with parents and trying to give hope in
all possible situations, fighting against time with never
ending energy. I will never forget your peaceful talks to
parents, and even if I could not understand the words,
your sweetness and hope were a lesson for me. Once,
on a PowerPoint, You showed me a sentence in Sanskrit
“Teacher is God; Guest is God”. I remember it often and
am thankful to you for being my teacher.
Aikya Thoumoung
Assam
5th January 2015
Thankfully,
Roberta Carelli
31st December 2014
Dear Dr R Kekunnaya,
Excellence
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Fifth Bijayananda Patnaik Lecture
Eminent Visitors/ Updates
Prof Sharat Chandra, Director, Centre
for Human Genetics, Bangalore,
delivered the Fifth Bijayananda
Patnaik Memorial Lecture on ‘Genes
and Genome’ on 16 January 2015, the
Foundation Day of LVPEI Bhubaneswar.
He spoke about the socio-legal and
scientific implications of developments
in genetic engineering. Present on the
occasion was Dr Kalsi Patnaik, wife
of Dr Bijayanada Patnaik and their family members. The event culminated with a medley of
delightful cultural performances from the staff at LVPEI Bhubaneswar.
Participation at All Odisha Students
Union of the Visually Impaired
Soumya Panda and Sumita Lima from the NTPC Centre for Sight
Enhancement and Rehabilitation for the Visually Challenged at
LVPEI Bhubaneswar participated at the 10th Annual Program of
All Odisha Students Union for the Visually Impaired held at Utkal
University, Bhubaneswar on 23 January 2015. The team exhibited
assistive devices and received good response from the audience.
Markapuram Centre’s 7th Anniversary
Leah Sbriscia, Ryan Ross, Vivi Wzhao and Emmanuel
Opati from the Johns Hopkins
Carey Business School visited
the Kuchukulla Ramachandra
Reddy
Eye
Centre
at
Thoodukurthy, Mahbubnagar
district as part of their Innovation for Humanity
project; 9 January.
Ms Amanda Huang, Senior Program Manager, The
Fred Hollows Foundation – China; Ms Baojie, Vice
Consultant, Office of Medical Administration,
Health and Family Planning Commission, Inner
Mongolia; Mr Bilige, Deputy Director, International
Mongolia Hospital, lnner Mongolia; Mr Zhang
Guishen, Deputy Director and Ms Fan Limin, Deputy
Director, Hohhot Chaoju Ophthalmic Hospital of
Red Cross Society, Inner Mongolia; 24 December.
Dr James Chodosh, Boston, USA; Dr Jose Gomes,
Sao Paolo, Brazil; Dr Namrata Sharma, New Delhi,
India; Dr Alejandro Navas, Mexico; Dr Enrique
Graue, Mexico; Dr Yonathan Garfias, Mexico, for the
Workshop on Ocular Surfaces; 29-31 January.
Dr Milind Pande, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon &
Medical Director, Vision Surgery & Research Centre,
UK, for a Guest Lecture on ‘Refractive Cataract
Surgery’; 24 January.
Sudhakar and Sreekanth Ravi
Eye Centre at Markapuram,
Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh,
celebrated its 7th anniversary on 3
January 2015. Dignitaries present Bellary
included former MLA Sri Kandula Sonali Deshpande/
Persistence
Foundation
Bhubaneswar
M H Dalmia / OCL
Narayan Raddy, MLA Sri Jamke
India Limited
Venkat Reddy, Municipal Chairman
Chhoton De
Smt Vakkalagadda Radhika, MPC Sri
K C Mohanty
Malakondiah, DSP Sri Venkatratnam
Kirteemayee Roul
and others.
S S Samantaray
State Bank of India
Dubai
Shakil Khan
My entry to the hospital was with a badly swollen and watering left eye, red in color, inability
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to look towards my right side or left. I reached Ms Manjula, who suggested I quickly visit the
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hospital. However due to my work, I reached after 5:00 pm and could connect to Ms Rukhsana. All
appreciation and special thanks to Ms Ruksana who did not waste a single minute and guided me
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to an emergency room. After the preliminary examination she guided me to Dr Muralidhar who
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reassured me, understood my agony and referred me to Dr Milind Naik.
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An ultrasound examination was done that did not show any major defect and Dr Milind Naik
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assured me that medical management would heal. He is such an amazing doctor. In this fast paced
world finding a doctor like him is a blessing. It was comforting to hear him asking his team to share
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his number with me so I could reach him directly. But the medication did wonders and I was doing
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fine. To my surprise when a saw my mobile with the doctor’s message the next day, I was extremely
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happy to see a famous and busy doctor care to drop a concerned message. This thrilled me.
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My special thanks to Ms Ruksana. Though she was done with her work for the day, she never showed
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any kind of anxiety to leave. When I saw it was 7:00 pm, I checked with Ms Ruksana about her shift
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timings and she just smiled. Right from our entry to the hospital till we left, she stood as a strong
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pillar supporting and assuring us that nothing would happen to my eye. It’s a great privilege and
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honor for any institution to have such strong pillars as Customer Service Managers.
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Thanks and regards,
Seshendra
Om Prakash Tibrewala
K Lalitha
/ O P Tibrewala
10th January 2015
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