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Cataract is one of the leading causes of avoidable blindness. We help identify patients and connect them with quality surgical care.
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Cataract is one of the leading causes of avoidable blindness. We help identify patients and connect them with quality surgical care.
Donate nowCataract is one of the leading causes of avoidable blindness, affecting millions of people who lack access to timely treatment. Through our Cataract Surgery Facilitation Program, Care Netram helps identify cataract patients and connects them with quality surgical care through trusted hospital partners. Our team supports patients throughout the process - from screening and diagnosis to referral, counseling, and follow-up care - ensuring they receive the treatment they need without unnecessary barriers.
Every contribution helps identify, refer, fund, and follow up on cataract cases - turning diagnosis into restored sight.
Your donations help systematically identify cataract cases through eye camps and Vision Centers. Trained technicians screen individuals, examining their vision and diagnosing cataracts accurately. This critical first step ensures that those affected can receive the proper care.
We also provide essential patient counseling and awareness programs, breaking myths and fears surrounding cataract surgery. This support empowers individuals to make informed decisions and proceed with life-changing treatments.
Support ensures that once cataracts are identified, patients receive a referral to partner eye hospitals. Care Netram coordinates everything, from documentation and appointment scheduling to arranging transportation for patients, ensuring they reach surgery without the stress of navigating the system alone.
Our surgery coordination and patient support is designed to minimize the number of patients lost after diagnosis, making sure that even those with advanced cataracts get the care they need. This coordination builds long-term relationships with partner hospitals.
Donations help fund cataract surgeries for those who cannot afford it, particularly daily-wage earners and individuals living below the poverty line. Care Netram's fund allows us to sponsor surgeries, ensuring that financial constraints don't keep people from restoring their vision.
Following surgery, we provide post-operative guidance and follow-up care to ensure recovery is on track. Over 8,000 cataract surgeries have already been sponsored, with more added every month - helping individuals return to work, care for their families, and participate fully in life.
To ensure the best results, patients need follow-up visits to track their healing and address any concerns. Donations support post-surgery visits, which may take place at clinics or even in the patient's community. This personalized care ensures that recovery is on track and that complications are caught early.
Care Netram's approach includes home visits, reinforcing aftercare instructions and helping patients feel supported throughout their recovery, which ultimately improves outcomes and builds trust in the process.
We track critical metrics at every stage - from diagnosis to recovery - to demonstrate your donation's impact.
Tracking diagnosed cataract cases shows how many individuals are affected. These figures help us better allocate resources and identify where intervention is most needed.
This measures how many patients identified with cataracts successfully reach a partner hospital for surgery. A high referral rate is a sign that our coordination efforts are working, helping vulnerable populations get the care they deserve.
This metric tracks the number of surgeries supported through donations, whether fully funded or subsidized. By monitoring these numbers, we show how your donations are making a tangible difference in reducing avoidable blindness.
This shows the number of follow-up visits completed, ensuring that post-surgery recovery is progressing well. Linking surgeries to follow-up visits ensures that patients maintain good visual health and catch any issues early on.
Benudhar Mallick, a 60-year-old street performer from Odisha, lost his sight to cataracts, leaving him unable to perform and support his family. Without much help from his sons, he struggled as his vision worsened.
Through Care Netram's community screening, we identified Benudhar's cataracts and explained the options available to him. Initially hesitant, he agreed to surgery after receiving reassurance and information from our team. Care Netram coordinated his transport to the hospital, funded his surgery, and provided post-surgery follow-up at his home.
Within weeks, Benudhar regained his sight and independence, returning to his performances and daily life. His story is just one of many, showing how cataract care can change lives and restore independence.
Improving learning and work - while adding safety, health, and independence to daily life.
Improving learning and work - while adding safety, health, and independence to daily life.
Care Netram works to make affordable, accessible and quality eye care available to underserved communities. We conduct community and school eye-screening programmes, provide affordable spectacles, identify and refer people requiring further eye care, and develop sustainable vision-care models such as Vision Centres and Vision Entrepreneur/NetraSathi models.
Our approach combines eye health, technology, local entrepreneurship and livelihood creation to build sustainable access to vision care.
Our programmes primarily benefit low-income and underserved communities, including people living in rural and semi-urban areas, tribal communities, schoolchildren, workers and other groups who may have limited access to affordable eye care.
We focus particularly on people who face geographical, economic or social barriers to accessing vision services.
We track both reach and impact across our programmes. Key indicators include:
Digital systems are increasingly used to capture patient and programme data, monitor performance and support transparent reporting to partners and donors.
Donations help us expand access to affordable eye care for communities that need it most. Depending on the programme, funds may support:
We aim to use donor support responsibly and efficiently, with programme expenditure linked to clearly defined activities and outcomes.
Yes. CSR partners can support specific programme areas, geographies or beneficiary groups, with CSR projects being executed through our NGO, GoodVision India Foundation, subject to applicable CSR and regulatory requirements.
Care Netram provides the programme implementation expertise, field network, technical resources and operational support for delivering these initiatives.
Potential CSR areas include:
We can work with CSR partners to develop a customised project proposal covering the geography, beneficiaries, activities, budget, implementation plan, measurable outcomes and reporting framework.
CSR funding can therefore support a clearly defined programme, with GoodVision India Foundation providing the eligible NGO framework and Care Netram supporting on-ground implementation.
Yes. We provide appropriate donation documentation in accordance with applicable Indian laws and regulatory requirements.
For Indian donors, an appropriate donation receipt and supporting documentation can be provided, subject to the organisation's applicable tax-exemption and regulatory status.
For international donors, documentation and eligibility for tax benefits depend on the donor's country and the regulations governing cross-border donations. International donors should check the tax treatment applicable in their country before making a contribution.
For CSR partnerships and institutional grants, we provide relevant agreements, utilisation documentation, programme reports and other supporting documents as applicable.
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