AN OUTLIER IN THE STATE OF ODISHA

The TN hospital, Sambalpur, Odisha and Bhawanipatna, Odisha.

In western Odisha, sometimes known as tribal Odisha, Dr. Shiva Prasad Sahoo’s exceptional team continue to provide high quality eye care for all.
In 2019, they began running training courses in Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS). Learning this technique of cataract extraction is particularly useful for any surgeon wishing to volunteer in developing countries where dense cataract is the norm.

Second Sight clinicians have worked with Dr Shiva for over a decade. We throughly endorse him as a teacher of surgery.
Contact : education@trilochan.org 

Excerpt from Lucy Mathen’s book - A Runaway Goat

‘Shiva is the youngest of a poor rural family. Against all odds and with the help of scholarships, he qualified as a doctor and then specialised in Ophthalmology. He decided that as Orissa had a terrible backlog of people unnecessarily blind from reversible causes like cataract, he should build up a team that would not rest until this problem was eradicated….a handful of teams working with equal diligence could restore sight to every single blind person in the state.’