Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India (SECI) won the prestigious FICCI Healthcare Excellence Award for the third consecutive year at the third edition of the FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards.

The awards are instituted by the FICCI in association with Ernst & Young and Astron.

R Balasubramanian, director - Group Marketing and Mentor, Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India (SECI) received the award from Dr. Mukesh Chawla - Head, Knowledge Management, Human Development, World Bank.

FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards recognizes the contribution of healthcare providers in delivering quality healthcare, patient care and increasing reach in rural and remote areas. This year, FICCI adopted innovation and sustainability in healthcare as the main criterion for evaluating participants from across the country. SECI won the award in the category, ‘Addressing Industry Issues’ which looked at such key concerns as taking healthcare to the masses, implementing a successful PPP model, reducing the cost of healthcare, enhancing the availability of talent through education and training and so on.

On the strength of a structured comprehensive preventive and curative community eye care programme, supported by state- of –the- art base hospital services and logistical capabilities, SECI was unanimously chosen the winner by an esteemed jury comprising of former Chief Justice of India, RC Lohati, Dr Girdhar J Gyani (secretary general, QCI), Prof. K Srinath Reddy (president, PHFI), Dr. YP Bhatia (MD and chairman – Astron Consultants) among others.

Last year, SECI was hailed the winner for taking healthcare to the masses in India while in 2009, the institution was recognized for carrying out exemplary work in healthcare among the underserved in the community.

Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India has been offering highly specialized diagnostic and surgical eye care to the visually impaired through nine institutions across India. The organization is committed to providing quality healthcare to all, regardless of socio-economic considerations, while firmly believing that increased accessibility to such services is the key to eliminating needless blindness in India. Over the last 34 years, Sankara has come to be known for affordable, super-specialty eye care.

With SECI, nearly 22 million have benefited from preventive and curative care and over 7,72,000 vision-restoring procedures have been performed till date.

It offers highly specialized diagnostic and surgical eye care to the visually impaired through nine institutions across India. Over the last 34 years, Sankara has come to be known for affordable, super-specialty eye care. Sankara has been recognized for quality healthcare with the Asian Hospital Management Award in the years 2008 and 2009, and the FICCI Healthcare Excellence Award, 2009 and 2010. Through the eye care major, nearly 22 million have benefited from preventive and curative care; over 7,72,000 vision-restoring procedures have been performed till date.