The Rangarajan Vision and Health Foundation

This registered not for profit organization (public charitable trust) has been founded by Dr Ashok Rangarajan, an ophthalmic surgeon with 25 years of experience in ophthalmology.
Dr.Ashok Rangarajan’s community ophthalmic career began from 1993 when he would attend eye camps and help conduct high volume surgeries as a part of the NPCB unit based in the department of Ophthalmology of Pt JNM Medical College, Raipur, currently the capital of the state of Chattisgarh. Subsequently he worked as a Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon in one of the premier eye institutes of the country, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai for over a decade, where he helped develop the Jaslok Community Ophthalmic Centre(JCOC), the community ophthalmology wing of the institute and was incharge of the department from 1997-2001.
He then represented the organisation on the board of Vision 2020 - the right to sight - India, a national forum formed to achieve the targets set for reducing preventable blindness. He was Director of Eye Care of the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation in Nigeria, a charitable organisation, which runs 5 eye hospitals in Nigeria in partnership with the Government in different regions of the country.
He has been a high volume surgeon himself and has been deeply involved with all aspects of the community ophthalmic service.
With this background Dr Ashok Rangarajan has formed the trust, which is registered as a public charitable trust as per norms laid down by the Govt. of India and has been formed with the aim to serve the people of this region (South Chennai and neighbouring Tamil Nadu) with a single standard of care.
The Foundation shares the same facility, Mission and Vision, medical team and staff as the Centre For Eye and Health Care, which in itself shows the same standards for the “haves and have-nots”
Compassion, Personalized Care, Ethical and Evidence based practice of medicine are the key strengths and beliefs of the team at the Foundation.
The primary aim is to bring a single standard of care to all the sections of society.
The Foundation has currently obtained the Tamil Nadu Government’s permission to deliv- er eye care free of cost at the Govt Corporation hospitals in Thoraipakkam(OMR, South Chennai) and Kannagi Nagar(South Chennai). While the screening is done at the Govt hospitals, all patients needing follow up investigations and treatment are carried out free of cost at the base hospital located in Thoraipakkam in OMR, South Chennai. The Foundation has been conducting camps in urban slums and rural Tamil Nadu.
In the past 2 decades or more, camp system of screening and bringing the patients to the base hospital and treating them was the norm, but with time it was realised that there were lacunae in the system, and to have a better reach, establishing vision centres and through them being in constant touch with the populace is now being seen as the best way forward. This concept is being further reenforced by the fact that social distancing is the new normal and the vision centre approach would serve all purposes.
The Rangarajan Vision and Health Foundation is currently functioning in Thoraipakkam in South Chennai.

Mission Statement

• To provide the most up-to-date eye care to patients in a very caring and friendly environment.
• To preserve and restore vision, respecting the unique needs of each individual patient and offering the best services to satisfy every patient’s needs.
• To lay emphasis on imparting education to our patients and our community regarding preventive measures and create awareness about eye diseases.