KARACHI: Award for LRBT

Published March 7, 2007

KARACHI, March 6: The Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology presented the Prevention of Blindness Award to the chairman of the Layton-Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust (LRBT), for the outstanding services in preventive ophthalmology in the Asia-Pacific region, rendered by LRBT and its chairman.

The LRBT is the leading provider of eye care in Pakistan, treating 30 per cent of all eye patients through its nationwide network of 14 hospitals (two more under construction at Arifwala and Pasrur) and 32 primary eye-care centres.

In its 21 years of existence, the LRBT has treated over 12 million patients in OPD and has performed just under 1.3 million surgeries, all free.

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