History of Narayana Nethralaya:
A Centre of Competence,Commitment,Compassion & Excellence
Narayana Nethralaya is specialty eye hospital in Bangalore, having two large units, one located centrally at Rajajinagar, and the other at the Narayana Hrudayalaya- Health City campus on Hosur Road. It is currently one of the largest eye care centers in the state of Karnataka providing tertiary advanced level of eye care.
Narayana Nethralaya was started in the year 1982 as an eye clinic at Srirampuram, Bangalore by our Chairman Dr.K.Bhujang Shetty.
Recognizing the need to provide comprehensive eye care to the ever-growing number of patients, while at the same time offering the best in ophthalmic subspeciality services, Dr.K.Bhujang Shetty established Narayana Nethralaya as it is today in 1993. The result of his efforts is what we are today.
We have now expanded to become even bigger and better. Our new eye hospital at Narayana Health City is spread over 120,000 sq.ft, and has separate wings for various specialties and departments, which are fully equipped with the state of art diagnostic and therapeutic tools. This hospital proudly lodges a dedicated area for community eye care. This area exclusively caters to the eye care needs of the financially under –privileged, offering them quality eye care at no or subsidized cost, at all times keeping the dignity of the individual in mind. Paediatric eye health is one of our thrust areas.
Ocular health is closely related to many systemic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, systemic infections and cancer. Our thrust into basic and applied research simultaneously with state of the art diagnostics and therapeutics, in conjunction with some of the best minds in the Narayana Health City promises to allow us to make path breaking changes in treatment paradigms in the years to come.
Research expansion is one of our current priorities and we have a dedicated wing to facilitate this endeavor. We are probably one of the few eye centers in the state to have dedicated research facilities. Our focus is on applied research in areas such as Stem cells, Molecular techniques (Polymerase chain reaction), Genetics, Ocular Immunology and infectious diseases.
Of note, is the serious effort being directed to switch over to Electronic Medical Records in a phased manner. A new department of Medical Informatics has been set up to exploit information technology to improve patient care and create knowledge form data.
The National Board of examinations, New Delhi has recognized our hospital for training of candidates for the DNB course )Ophthalmology) with an intake of 6 candidates per year. Our programme gives vast learning experience in terms of clinical, surgical and continuing medical educations programmes. Our consultant are responsible as thesis guides for mentoring their research work.
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