This study may help to serve rural community of the country Introduction The Vision Centre, catering to a population of 50,000, is envisaged as a sustainable primary eye care model at the community level. The main functions of the Vision Centre include recognition of eye problems, refraction and optical services and referral to the networked secondary and tertiary eye care facilities where comprehensive eye care is provided. The vision centres would be manned by a locally identified and trained person from the community, and in the long term could become sustainable.
The Vision Centre concept has also been accepted as a viable model under “VISION 2020: The Right to Sight” global initiative and in the Plan of Action of the National Program for Control of Blindness in India.1 It is proposed to set up 20,000 Vision Centres by the year 2020 as per the plan of action in India. 2 The vision…
