Lessons from India: delivering high quality, efficient cataract surgery

U-M Kellogg Eye Center researchers have published an inside look into India’s Aravind Eye Care System’s high efficiency effort to eliminate blindness.

Each year, Aravind hospitals provides care to nearly 4 million patients. According to the study, these efforts by the hospital to eliminate cataract-related blindness and low vision in India would cost $2.6 billion but would yield a net societal benefit of $13.5 billion.

“One of the goals of economic analyses is to help inform (policy makers) of the value of different interventions,” said Joshua Stein, director of the University’s Center for Eye Policy and Innovation and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.