Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital with Hoya Lens India Launches Customized Lens with Digitized Optics Dispensing System

Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital with Hoya Lens India Launches Customized Lens with Digitized Optics Dispensing System

Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital, Pioneer in offering latest eye care in India in association with Hoya Lens India (P) Ltd. in Navi Mumbai, has launched Customized Lens – Hoyalux iD with True View (Digitized Optics Dispensing System) for the first time in India. It was formally inaugurated by Worshipful Mayor Thiru Ma. Subramanian and His Excellency Mr. Kazuo Minagawa, Consul General of Japan in Chennai in the premises of the hospital. This launch of Hoyalux iD with TrueView brings in the advanced optic technology that makes vision through the progressive lens not only clear but comfortable in terms of widen visual field, free from wavy effects for presbyopic crowd.

Dr Agarwal´s Eye Hospital in association with Hoya Lens India has set up Hoyalux iD with TrueView Lounge, a complete setup to provide the customized progressive as well as monofocal lens for clear vision with hospitality. The lounge dispenses Hoyalux iD lenses that have integrated double surface design which reduces the insecure feeling of senior citizens while looking at the floor, down steps or in oblique direction. One gets benefited from Lens due to wider visual field and no wavy effect for all distances when compared to conventional progressive lens.

TrueView, Digitized Optic Dispensing System, set in a separate cabin has 3 dimensional measuring systems that clicks photograph of the person in different angle and creates prescription based on 14 different pre-determined parameters which makes the lens customized to individual eye. The demonstrator present along with the machine not only demonstrates the refractive error condition, different corrective measures for it but also suggests the best possible option for the first time wearer of progressive lens.

Speaking on the occasion Worshipful Mayor Thiru. Ma. Subramanian said “It gives me immense pleasure to inaugurate here this new technology of world´s second largest lens manufacturer. Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital, the pioneers in eye care is well known for their dedicated service to the people. I was always overwhelmed by the service they provide to the people.”

His Excellency Mr. Kazuo Minagawa, Consul General of Japan in Chennai, said “I am delighted to be part of this new initiative providing the customized lens for clear vision with hospitality.”

“We are excited to be a part of Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital and look forward to doing great things together,” said Mr. Gerald Bottero, President and CEO, Hoya Corporation – Vision Care Company. “We are sponsoring to setup 50 Rural OutReach Clinic in parts of Tamilnadu by 2010.”

Prof. Amar Agarwal, Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal´s Group of Eye Hospitals commented “We are happy to partner with Hoya lens of bringing the new technology for first time in India (Customized Lens with Digitized Optics Dispensing System). This advanced technology would offer clear vision with precision, efficiency and upgrade the standard of dispensing glasses for the adult crowd. This new technology overcomes the problem of inaccurate measurement that can lead to eyestrain and poor vision. The data measured by the system will also enable eye care professionals to offer lenses that are personalized to the needs of individual wearers,” he said.

About Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital:
Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital is a tertiary eye hospital, offering one stop solution in eye care; started in the year 1957. Now the hospital is in its 53rd year of quality service in eye care with 12 branches in Chennai apart from leaving its footprints in Villupuram, Kumbakonam, Neyveli, Panruti, Tiruvallur and other areas. The hospital has received various awards for its inventions and services. In March 2006, Late Dr. J Agarwal, Chairman has been awarded with Padma Bhushan by then President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam for his dedicated service to the poor and needy. The hospital got noted on the global platform for its inventions – Micro-Phakonit (Cataract surgery with 0.7 mm size incision) in 1999 and ´Glued Intraocular Lens Implant´ performed on a four-year-old girl in January 2008 by Prof. Amar Agarwal. In March 2008, hospital bagged three prestigious awards at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS) Conference in Chicago. In September 2008, Dr. Agarwal´s Eye Hospital became the only hospital in the world to receive three awards and a certificate of appreciation in the history of European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Conference, Berlin. Recently, in February 2009, world´s first Anterior Segment Eye Transplant Surgery was performed on a four month old child to treat corneal disorder.

(Left)From left, president Bottero, Professor Agarwal(center) and Worshipful Mayor Mr. Subramanian. (Right)Mr. Minagawa, Consul General(left) and Mr. Bottero.

(Left)From left, president Bottero, Professor Agarwal(center) and Worshipful Mayor Mr. Subramanian.
(Right)Mr. Minagawa, Consul General(left) and Mr. Bottero.

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