Chaitimeradio

In this Chaitime show we talk to Murali Krishnamurthy, Founder and Executive Chairman of Sankara Eye foundation, and celebrate with him Sankara’s great accomplishment of performing 1 million free eye surgeries in India. More than 40 million people in India suffer from some kind of blindness. Of those, 12 million are totally blind, which means 1/4th of the world’s blind population resides in India. These are incredibly large numbers. Urged by their uncle Late Sri. P. Balasubramaniam, who was a longtime friend and associate of the Sankara Movement, brothers, Murali and Sridharan initiated Sankara Eye Foundation in USA in the year 1998. Since then their progress has been phenomenal: from one eye hospital and 8,000 eye surgeries to 1 million free eye surgeries this year at nine state of the art hospitals all over India. Sankara Eye Foundation is entirely run by volunteers and works in multiple ways to make Sankara’s mission towards eradicating preventable blindness a reality. In this show we talk to Murali K