Our health care programme aims to build sustainable and inclusive systems and services for persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged populations. Our mandate in health care includes visual impairments, hearing and speech impairments, physical impairments, mental illness, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities.
While our eye care programmes are well known, we also support cross-disability health interventions such as ear and hearing care, mental health care, and physical impairments such as clubfoot. We work to minimise the conditions that lead to disability and reduce the prevalence of diseases that cause impairments. We also work on prevention and health promotion besides curative treatment, therapy, and support with assistive devices. Our emphasis is that health services should be inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities.
CBM strives to promote inclusive education, addressing above components through our unique programmes, learning together playing together
With improved vision after his cataract surgery, Kamla Prasad completes a beautiful Banarasi saree in 4 days and makes upto INR 9,000 to 10,000 (130-140 USD) monthly. With increased income, in the long run, Kamala Prasad aspires to own his own handloom machine.
Kamla Prasad
Handloom Weaver, Banarasi
Programme Milestones
Our Impact
11,95,704
People received medical services for ear conditions
6,08,835
People received medical services for orthopaedic conditions
60,110
People received community mental health services
3,19,41,750
People received medical eye services
88,945
People received other medical services
Case Stories
A New Model in Eye Care: Integrating Eye Care into Primary Health Centres
CBM’s eye care programmes are comprehensive. They are aimed at eye health in terms of promotion, prevention, curative interventions, and rehabilitation at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels…
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Restoring Sight in Rural Tamil Nadu
Visual impairment is a serious health challenge that is acute in India. In majority of the cases, the primary reasons for blindness are refractive error and cataract that…
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Radha, the 80-year-old Social Butterfly
Looking at the Radha, Shakespeare would have surely remarked “What’s in an age!” She might be 80-years-old, with two sons, but that never stopped her from flitting about…
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