A patient with his eye bandaged sits after a cataract surgery at hospital of Aravind Eye Care System...
A patient with his eye bandaged sits after a cataract surgery at a hospital of the Aravind Eye Care System in a village outside 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)