Dr. Jawahar Lal Rohatgi Memorial Eye Hospital

Name :

Dr. Jawahar Lal Rohatgi Memorial Eye Hospital

Address  :

117/52
Sarvodaya Nagar
Gol Chauraha

Town  :

Kanpur

State  :

Uttar Pradesh

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

208002

Phone  :

7617006431

Web URL  :

Dr Jawahar Lal Rohatgi Memorial Eye Hospital
Specialization
  • Ophthalmology
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 200

Speciality Type :

Super Speciality :

  • Neuro Surgical
  • Eye-Retinal Surgery
  • Neurology
  • Urology

Other Facilities

  • Pathology
  • X-Ray
  • Ultrasonography
  • CT/MRI

Description

Animesh Rai is a postgraduate in health and hospital management from the Indian Institute of Health Management Research currently working as a Deputy Administrator at the Association for the Prevention of Blindness a nonprofit society operating 200bedded JL Rohatgi Memorial Eye Hospital in Kanpur

Our Mission
We are on a mission to make Uttar Pradesh an avoidable blindness free state To provide unmatched specialist eye care to all those who need it regardless of their ability to afford such treatment and thus work towards universal freedom from preventable and curable blindness We will do this by enhancing our capabilities in our existing eye hospital in Kanpur and the new multispecialty hospital

Our Vision
We always work to bring out our translational research to generate new amp better therapies diagnostics and knowledge of eye care With our objectives we will be offering excellent ophthalmological medical care qualified clinical staff and combining a stateoftheart structure hightech equipment with a focus on providing quality eye care services to the community including the lastmile population


History

Dr Rajendra Rohatgi completed his MBBS from Government Grant Medical College Mumbai then Bombay in 1935 and pursued post graduate courses in ophthalmology from DOMS London United Kingdom and ZLO Vienna Austria during 193742

He established a society along with likeminded philanthropists and registered as Association for the Prevention of Blindness UP in 1946 at Kanpur Dr Rajendra Rohatgi Institute of Medical Sciences is a paramedical teaching and training institute which is associated with the eye hospital

The society opened a general hospital J L Rohatgi Hospital in 1997 which also served as a dedicated COVID treatment hospital during the second wave of the pandmeic and became a multispecialty hospital in 2021
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