Little Flower Hospital Trust, Angamaly

Opthalmology

The Ophthalmology department of Little Flower Hospital was started in 1964. We have an average outpatientstatistics of 350 per day in this department. More than 10000 surgeries are performed in the department everyyear. We have almost all sophisticated equipments in the department. The hospital functions as a referral center For the entire state of Kerala for ophthalmic problems. At present we are having the subspecialties like Cornea Clinic, Retina Clinic, Glaucoma clinic, Pediatric Ophthalmology Unit, Squint clinic, Oculoplasty, Neurophthalmology clinic, Uvea clinic, Contact lens Clinic& Prosthetics. We are the pioneers in conducting community screening programmes in Kerala. Thousands of people benefit from our community programmes like mobile eye camps,school screening programmes, etc. Around 60% of our cataract surgeries are done at free of cost.

In the beginning there were only 5 beds for the eye department and the equipment was also not very grandiose. Now the department, which is ISO 9001-2000 certified by BSI, has attained the heights of a full-fledged institute with modern surgical facilities, sub specialty clinics and research and training facilities without losing its
commitment to the poor. It has 150 beds and out of it 70 beds are kept apart for free treatment.

In the area of Ophthalmic Service the institution has taken the initiative of organizing service through regular free eye camps, school screening progammes, peripheral eye care centers, Eye Bank as well as developing secondary and tertiary services in Ophthalmic field. Thrust is given to various training programmes also. This is recognized as one of the best ophthalmic centers in the south and is one among the 5 recipients in India; of the President’s Grant for pediatric Eye Care declared on the World sight Day 2005.

LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL has recognized this hospital as its base hospital to conduct cataract surgeries. All the Lions clubs in Kerala may be associating with as to conduct eye camps in their area of operation and to motivate the people who need surgeries to undergo for the same

Out Patient Department
An average of 350 patients visit the base hospital every day and this includes paying and nonpaying patients. The OP statistics for the last three years is given below.
	OUT PATIENT STATISTICS 2003-05
	Year	Total	Free	Paying
	2003	175650	93738	81912
	2004	168531	84590	83941
	2005	168159	80496	87663


Indoor Facilities
We have 150 beds in the department and 70 beds are kept apart for free patients. Inpatient statistics for the last Three years is given below

	Year	Total
	2003	6008
	2004	5081
	2005	9360


Surgical output:
This center is one of the major eye centres in India undertaking all complicated eye surgeries over and above theroutine eye surgeries. Intra Ocular Lens implantation surgery, corneal transplantation, refractive surgery, vitreoretinalsurgery, oculoplastic surgery, glaucoma surgery, strabismus surgery, Lasik surgery and many other minorand major surgical procedures are undertaken here. There are 2 rooms with 4 tables, which allow 4 doctors to operate at a time. The data about no of surgeriesperformed in the last five years are given below.

	Year	Cataract operations	Other surgeries	Total
	2001	2983	5808	8791
	2002	4279	6019	10298
	2003	4373	6088	10461
	2004	4786	84590	10635
	2005	5692	6180	11872

Around 60% of our surgeries are done at free of cost. Paying and camp distribution of patients operated for cataract surgery is depicted below.