Hyderabad’s LVPEI retains WHO collaborating centre status until 2030
The World Health Organization has redesignated Hyderabad's L V Prasad Eye Institute as a Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness until 2030. The institute will continue supporting global eye care programmes through research, training, public health expertise and technical guidance.
HYDERABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has redesignated Hyderabad-based L V Prasad Eye Institute as a Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness for a period of 4 years, till 2030.
LVPEI, which had achieved designation 25-years-ago in 2001, is one of 11 eye care institutions designated by the WHO Director-General to support WHO’s global eye care and blindness prevention programmes.
As a WHO Collaborating Centre, LVPEI will support the United Nations (UN) body’s goal of achieving universal health coverage with its technical and operational expertise.
LVPEI’s large pyramidal network and expertise in public health epidemiology will help generate evidence for best practices, train an adequate eye health workforce, and develop eye health guidelines.
“The redesignation underscores two decades of collaboration between LVPEI and WHO in taking public health eye care forward. It is an honour and a responsibility,” says Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder Chair, LVPEI.”
