A patient is wheeled out after eye operation at hospital of Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai
A patient is wheeled out after an eye operation at a hospital of the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, in India's Tamil Nadu state March 4, 2010 to screen for eye problems which will then be treated at one of their hospitals. From a rented house with 11 beds in 1976, Aravind, whose mission is to eliminate needless blindness, has grown into a network of hospitals and clinics that provides eye examinations, surgery by keeping its costs extremely low and by subsidizing care for poor people through fees for paying customers and the sale of eye-care products. Picture taken March 4, 2010. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)