Ustad Amjad Ali Khan inaugurates HelpMeSee Learning and Development Centre at Powai
Two unique Music for Vision concerts held in Mumbai and Delhi in October marked the start of a new phase in HelpMeSee’s global campaign to end cataract blindness, with the proceeds going to support training for cataract specialists and achieve cataract surgical backlog free communities in some of the poorest districts in India by 2020.
In a related development, Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, the Global Goodwill Ambassador for HelpMeSee, inaugurated the HelpMeSee Learning and Development Centre at Powai in the presence of the Lions as well as Jacob Mohan Thazhathu, President and CEO, HelpMeSee and George Mathew, Artistic Director and Founder, Music for Life International.
The HelpMeSee Learning and Development Centre is a world-class facility that will house the world’s first comprehensive virtual reality cataract surgical training simulator which will be at the core of the global programme to train surgeons. These highly skilled surgeons will give an impetus to HelpMeSee’s Global Campaign to end cataract blindness by delivering safe, high quality and low cost Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS). The centre has been set up with an investment of Rs 15 crores including the cost of the simulators.
The centre will also play an important role to support the training of initially about 1,000 cataract surgeons within India to achieve the goal of creating 50 cataract surgical backlog free districts by 2020.
EH News Bureau
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