Top 10 Leaders From Eye Hospitals – 2022

Deluged with abundance of health & wellness issues and chronic diseases, healthcare landscape has grown at a rapid pace over the years, and today it has become the largest sectors in terms of revenue and employment too. According to Statista reports, while India's healthcare sector was worth about $280 billion in 2020, it was estimated to reach up to $372 billion by 2022. However, the COVID-19 prevalence was also a tough time for patients and leaders in the healthcare industry to sail through the unprecedented challenges put forth by the pandemic effects. The eye healthcare sector also faced the struggles and disruptions in the treatment and conduct of the procedures of eye care in patients of Mucormycosis/ Black fungus and others as it was difficult for getting to contact a doctor and have the eye check-up done. Considering the unfavourable circumstances, the strength of digital infrastructure proves to be a savior leveraging home consultations and smooth performance of surgeries and other procedures if required. While there are many avoidable tragedy like timely medical intervention that can save multiple patients from falling pray to blindness and other eye problems, there are numerous challenges that's hindering eye care like easy access to a quality eye care hospital, financial constraints, fear of surgery and the feeling that there is no need for surgery.

At present, India has only an estimated 25,000 ophthalmologists and only 45,000 optometrists against a required 125,000. Though, the shortage of ophthalmologists and optometrists in smaller cities, towns and rural areas cannot be ignored, there are certain things that can lead to better eye care landscape emergence in the country like expansion of the infrastructure to train eye specialists, government interventions for accreditations and creating standardized training programs, and more. Well, there are many existing healthcare leaders and hospitals who have lead prolific examples contributing to Eye care in the country, and they need to be recognized.

In this issue of the CEO Insights magazine, a list of `Top 10 Leaders From Eye Hospitals - 2022' is provided to the readers to know their stories of success with which they led the organizations there, and also how motivating and encouraging they are for others to learn from. The listing provides detailed information about the leaders who are selected by a panel of industry veterans, CEOs, and VCs, and the CEO Insights magazine editorial board.