Patients with their eyes bandaged rest after their cataract surgeries at hospital of Aravind Eye Care...
Patients with their eyes bandaged rest after their cataract surgeries at a hospital of the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, in India's Tamil Nadu state March 3, 2010. 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 3, 2010. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)