Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The number of blind persons in India in 2000 was estimated to be 18.7 million, of which 9.5 million were cataract –related. If there is no change in the current trend of blindness, the number of blind persons in India would increase to 31.6 million in 2020. If effective strategies are put in place to eliminate 95% of blindness due to cataract by 2020, blindness in 15.6 million persons would be prevented who would otherwise be blind in 2020, and 82 million blind person-year would be prevented [1]. In 2000, 3.5 million cataract operations were performed but this remains insufficient to treat the backlog and the newly blind[2]. Productivity per individual surgeon/unit should be increased through a high volume, high quality cataract surgery approach to solve the problem of India’s curable blind[3][4][5][6]. The World Health Organization global initiatives have called for a dramatic increase in surgical volumes worldwide[4]. However, it is becoming evident that outcomes of cataract surgeries are not always good and this aspect of surgical services must be further examined. Hence in this study an attempt has been made to analyze the results of 6000 surgeries performed by experienced surgeons utilizing the technique of manual small incision cataract surgery.
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