Himalayan Cataract Project: Eradicating Avoidable Blindness through Medical Innovation, Global Collaboration and Compassionate Capitalism
| Case Code: CSRS021 Case Length: 13 Pages Period: Pub Date: 2025 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.400 Organization: The Himalayan Cataract Project Cureblindness Industry: Healthcare and Services Countries: United States Themes: Healthcare, Social Enterprise |
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cataracts had been the world’s leading cause of vision impairment as of 2023, affecting 94 million people. And only 17% of people with cataract-related vision impairment were able to get proper treatment. According to Biomedical and Environmental Sciences research, the global cataract burden fell heavily on poor countries. The publication stated, “Cataracts are the most unevenly distributed non-communicable eye disease in the world, placing the greatest burden on middle- and low-income countries, which result from the combined effects of socio-economic and environmental factors.” Nearly 25 years after the world entered the new millennium, eye care remained one of the greatest public healthcare challenges. One organization that made a huge impact on eradicating avoidable blindness in several poor and middle-income countries was the Himalayan Cataract Project Cureblindness (HCP), which had restored sight to more than a million poor people since it was incorporated in 1995 with the mission of curing needless blindness with the highest quality care at the lowest cost..
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