Mark Twain recounted in Following the Equator, "India is the land of dreams and romance, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues”.
India provides volunteers abundant opportunities for a substantive service program and cultural enrichment.
We invite you to involve yourself in this service to humanity. You could according to your experience and qualifications work in different spheres of the hospital activites.
The hospital could utilize your expertise in the following fields :-
If you are a medico or are related with health care you could help assist in the work up of all patients being brought to the base hospital for treatment. Medicos could get a hands on with the various health care activities being carried out here. The state of the art facilities and the friendly faculty make it an ideal stepping stone into community health.
Administrative skills could be helpful in streamlining present practices and help improve the service delivery. You could help take classes for our students on effective managerial skills.
Those from the dotcom industry could help us in the ongoing computerization of healthcare system. We are at present in the process of making our hospital one of the first completely paperless charitable eyecare institutions.
If you have no experience and would still like to get involved then spreading health awareness in villages in and around Coimbatore could be for you. You could also help in carrying out the day to day activities at the base hospital as a volunteer to serve food to the patients or counselling them about health and hygiene. Be you without experience, a medical student or a qualified doctor we can offer you a once in a lifetime experience in areas that really need your help.You could be a doctor, a medical student or may think that u are inexperienced , at Sankara we offer you a once in a life time experience to help bring sight to others and provide an insight in your own self and may be discover new facets of your own self.
Think you don't have any skills to offer? You'd be surprised. And, if you need training, we'll provide it.
" My seven days at Sankara Eye Center opened my eyes up to the eye care revolution that is taking place in Coimbatore and the compassion and dedication with which care is readily given to needy patients. I feel very privileged to have been able to experience a full week at this hospital and I promise to take home my new found awareness and make sure that others in the United States come to realize how much their help is needed to eliminate the curable blindness from India for good. I did not come here for an eye operation, but I am leaving with better vision than I ever 