The Sankara Nethralaya Academy - TSNA Thousand Lights Chennai

 Sankara Nethralaya is one of the leading super specialty institutions for ophthalmic care in India. Sankara Nethralaya, meaning “The Temple of the Eye”, was founded in 1978 as a unit of Medical Research Foundation. It is a charitable, not-for-profit institution, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Its goal include providing quality ophthalmic care at affordable cost to patients, free eye care treatment to indigent patients and teaching and training an army of personnel to combat blindness affecting the population of India. Sankara Nethralaya was one of the institutions chosen by the Government of India for the “Trainers Training Programme” for alleviation of cataract blindness in the country. In January 2010, Sankara Nethralaya decided to scale up the Academic activities through setting up of “The Sankara Nethralaya Academy”. The Sankara Nethralaya Academy would function as a unit of Medical Research Foundation. The SN Academy is avowed to employ a system of educating people imparting knowledge through instruction courses, training classes, and usher in newer training/teaching methodologies including the use of IT. The objective is to teach courses that deal with A to Z in healthcare services.