Health Care Climate Challenge – 2022 Award
Aravind, December 6
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, an international network of hospitals dedicated to reducing their environmental carbon footprint and promoting environmental health through its initiative “Health Care without Harm” chose Aravind Eye Care System as 2022 climate champion among the health care institutions in Asia. The award recognizes Aravind’s initiative across the three pillars of the Health Care Climate Challenge – mitigation, resilience and leadership – to reduce carbon footprint.
J.M Pahwa Best Free Paper Award
Nagpur, December 2-4, 2022
Dr.Siddharth Narendran, Medical Consultant – Cataract & IOL Services , Aravind Eye Hospital – Coimbatore won the J.M Pahwa Best Free Paper Award for the paper, Development of a novel crispr based diagnostic platform for rapid diagnosis of fungal endophthalmitis at the 31st Annual Conference of Vitreo-Retinal Society of India.