Little Alok and his big fight

To combat the growing number of eye cancers in India, in 2015 we opened the Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Eye Cancer at the L V Prasad Eye Institute’s (LVPEI) Hyderabad campus. The facility provides life-changing cancer treatment to adults and children like Alok, pictured here, all at low or no cost.

Alok wasĀ just four months old when he was first brought by his parents to the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) at Bhubaneswar in June 2019. They had noticed a white spot on the black portion of his left eye, sought consultation with a local ophthalmologist, and had been referred to the institute on the… Continue reading Little Alok and his big fight