Vasan Eye Care Hospitals will soon launch hospitals at Sodepur and South Kolkata by the end of October. With this, the Vasan Healthcare Enterprise will be foraying into the Eastern markets of the country. Vasan Eye Care group plans to open 30+ hospitals in West Bengal. The new hospitals are strategically located for easy accessibility to the residents in and around the region.

With new hospital launches scheduled one after the other, the group rolled out a new phase of expansion with the launch of their state- of-the-art facility at Salt Lake City and Howrah at Kolkata. This move is a part of the group’s aggressive expansion that aims at taking Vasan Eye Care services to the doorsteps of the common man.

Every unit is a super specialty hub with cutting edge technology and super specialist doctors. These units have dedicated super specialty ophthalmologists and visiting consultants and host the latest technologies for eye care. The hospitals are equipped with state-of-the-art operation theatres, diagnostic stations, full-fledged optical outlet and all specialties of eye care apart from Pharmacy and Laboratory services. The hospitals also have services spanning across 38 eye care specialties and include treatments for Cataract (MICS), advanced treatments for glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, lasik laser treatment for freedom from glasses and contact lens, special paediatric clinic for children, optical shop, pharmacy, computer vision syndrome clinic, cosmetic clinic, and much more.

“We are happy to bring the most sought after eye care services to the people of Eastern India. This is the first step in a series of launches that will make Vasan Eye Care’s services available to every person in the region. We plan to expand our service to the rest of the regions of North India, bring the Vasan Eye Care brand to a 125 hospitals strong enterprise,” said Dr A M Arun, chairman – Vasan Healthcare Group.

The Vasan Eye Care network is a premier institution of eye care hospitals which started in Tamil Nadu and has been making a difference to over 6 million patients every year, making it a household name in South India today. Vasan Eye Care, the group's biggest success story, set up its first hospital in the year 2002 in Trichy and then shifted their base to Chennai and has now grown to over 90 eye care hospitals across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, New Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry. With more than 650 Ophthalmologists and over 7500 service staff, Vasan Eye Care is now the world's largest eye care network and aiming for 125 eye care centres in India and abroad by 2011. The group is planning to open up more hospitals in New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Rajkot, Nagpur, Pune, Kolhapur, Nashik, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Indore, Bhopal and Bhubaneshwar. The network also is opening up hospitals in Dubai, Oman and Colombo by the end of this FY.