<h1>Establishing A New 300-Bed Eye Hospital To Bring Light Of Sight To Bihar</h1>
<p>For the last 16 years, Akhand Jyoti has been relentlessly working towards eliminating curable blindness from the poorest regions of India - Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh.</p>
<p>All these years people like you have been my angel and have seen me through thick and thin.</p>
<p>This has enabled us to serve over 12 million people through a network of 1 tertiary hospital at Mastichak Bihar, 4 secondary hospitals and 21 Vision Centres across Bihar and Eastern UP.</p>
<p>Yet today, the achievement is miniscule compared to the challenge in hand.</p>
<p><strong>Bihar still has over 4.8 million visually challenged people out of which 2.8 million people need eye surgery.</strong></p>
<p>The healthcare system in Bihar is still worse off than most of the states in India.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_1_800x533px.jpg" alt="Blindness In Bihar" width="800" height="533" /></p>
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<p>Such an inequitable environment makes Bihar a breeding ground of social and economic inequality.</p>
<p>One of the ways of addressing this inequality is to provide sight to the blind because <strong>restoring sight = restoring income</strong>.</p>
<p>The COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 has been rough year for everybody.&nbsp;More so for us as it caused a reduction in the pace of our delivery.</p>
<p>However, my biggest strength has been people like you who have supported me all these years for our cause. This gives me an extra zeal of confidence to carry on the work like never before.</p>
<p>I am elated&nbsp;to announce that we would be<strong>&nbsp;launching a new,</strong><a href="https://sendgrid.com/marketing_campaigns/ui/campaigns/10444455/edit"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></a><strong>300-bed eye hospital</strong>, partly supported by&nbsp;our long-standing partner, Sankara Eye foundation, USA.&nbsp;</p>
<p>We have started building the hospital and target to completer it in the next 18 to 24 months.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_3_800x533px.jpg" alt="Centre Of Excellence In Bihar" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p><strong>Spread across 135,000 sq. ft.</strong> with a <strong>capacity to examine 600-700 patients per day</strong>, this state-of-the-art facility is poised to <strong>provide 300 surgeries every day,&nbsp;</strong>creating an additional capacity of 300 beds in addition to the existing 300 beds in Mastichak, Saran District, Bihar.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_4_800x533px.jpg" alt="COE Bihar" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>From free cataract surgeries for the underprivileged to specialty eye care, <strong>the facility would work as a hub for ophthalmology academics and research in the region.</strong></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_5_800x533px.jpg" alt="Largest eye hospital in India" width="800" height="533" /></p>
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<p>The finest and the brightest of our supporters are on a path to create an everlasting legacy in this wake.</p>
<p><strong>This facility in the coming decade will:</strong></p>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Provide primary eye care and treatment to 6,000,000 people</strong></li>
<li><strong>Provide sight-restoring surgeries to over 600,000 people</strong></li>
<li><strong>Dispense affordable spectacles to 500,000 people</strong></li>
<li><strong>Free over 1,200,000 caregivers* primarily young girls</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>*Note: An average of 2 persons are needed to look after each blind individual over a 24 hour period.</em></span></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_7new_800x533px.jpg" alt="Akhand Jyoti CoE" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p><strong>The total cost of the project is estimated to be US$ 8.5 million/ INR 64.8 crores* approx.</strong>&nbsp;Through our collaboration with Sankara Eye Foundation, USA,&nbsp;<strong>we have been able to raise close to US$ 6 million and need to raise further US$ 2.5 million/ INR 19 crores* approx.</strong></p>
<p><em>*Note: FX is considered as US$ 1 = INR 76.29</em></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_8new_800x533px.jpg" alt="akhand jyoti CoE" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>Each one of you reading this can be my guardian angel on this journey. It is an opportunity for all of us to create and imbibe an everlasting legacy in the making.</p>
<h3>You can be a founding donor of this initiative for as less as US$ 1,000 and have your name etched in bold on the &lsquo;Wall of Founders&rsquo;.</h3>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Founding Member.jpg" alt="Founding Member CoE" width="800" height="533" />&nbsp;</p>
<h3><strong><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_9-2_800x533px.jpg" alt="Golden Member CoE" width="800" height="533" /></strong></h3>
<h3><strong><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lead Partner.jpg" alt="Lead Partner CoE" width="800" height="533" /></strong></h3>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_11_800x533px.jpg" alt="Support for Centre Of Excellence" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Image_12_800x533px.jpg" alt="Support For CoE" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>I earnestly wish that you give Bihar a chance and join us on this journey of creating excellence.</p>
<p>Any amount, small or large that you wish to donate would help us collectively achieve the milestones and leave behind our biggest legacy, in our lifetime to some of the most deprived people in the region.&nbsp;</p>