Approximately 12 million people in India are currently blind. Worldwide the figure is 39 million with a further 285 million who are visually impaired. 90% of all people with blindness and visual impairment live in poor communities. Between 2016 and 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute made thousands of treatment interventions to cure and alleviate blindness in poor and underserved communities. Over 223,404 outpatients were welcomed and over 43,255 surgical procedures were delivered, which transformed the lives of thousands of the poorest families in the world.
2020 will be a pivotal year as the Tej Kohli Foundation and Tej Kohli Cornea Institute refocuses its efforts on developing an affordable, scalable and accessible solution for the masses. But this change of focus does not diminish the importance of making direct interventions to change lives. Tej Kohli and the Tej Kohli Foundation remain dedicated to the mission to eradicate corneal blindness by 2035.
