Rs. 200 crores (Rs 2000 million) for the first time, according to its annual report. In 2018–19, the number of free surgeries in the FY 2018-19 was 22,810—some 36% of total surgeries. It has Mobile Eye Surgery Units in three Indian states—Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand, which have conducted some 4520 totally free cataract surgeries in different villages across the three states. Branches Sankara Nethralaya Main Campus C. U. Shah Sankara Nethralaya JKCN Navasuja Sankara Nethralaya Sankara Nethralaya Super Speciality Clinic (SNSSC) Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya, Mukundapur, Kolkata kamalnayan Bajaj Sankara Nethralaya, New Town, Kolkata Mobile Eye Surgical Unit, Tatanagar, Jharkhand Sankara Nethralaya Optometry Clinic, Olympia Tech Park, Chennai Sankara Nethralaya, Rameshwaram Sri Srinivasa Sankara Nethralaya, Tirupati Community ophthalmology The Jaslok Community Ophthalmic Centre at Sankara Nethralaya offers free services to economically weaker sections. International patients Apart from receiving patients from all over the country, Sankara Nethralaya renders service to international patients including the US, UK and Bangladesh. Bangladesh was reported as having topped the number of foreign patients at the Chennai branch of Sankara Nethralaya. Yearly, some 56,000 Bangladeshi patients arrived in Chennai for eye care at Sankara Nethralaya, accounting for some 60% of all patients in the hospital. The tertiary ophthalmic hospital, provides treatment to patients particularly from South Asia—Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan; Africa—Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, among other countries; and the Middle East including UAE and Oman. CU Shah Eye Bank Sri C U Shah Eye Bank started functioning in Sankara Nethralaya in September 1979. The department of Medical Sociology was established in 1990 with the aim of promoting awareness on eye donation by educating and motivating the public towards this end. Technology Sankara Nethralaya was one of the first to implement electronic medical records in its facility with the complete OPD and the procedures done in the OPD available online thereby removing transferring of Records manually between complexes. Very soon electronic medical records will be implemented in the in-patient area. In stem cell research, a collaborative project on corneal stem cells have been underway with Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Chennai (India). Academics Ophthalmic course From its inception in 1978, the C U Shah Ophthalmic Postgraduate Training Center has been offering fellowship programmes in Vitreo-Retinal Surgery and General Ophthalmology to holders of postgraduate degree and a diploma in Ophthalmology. The center (M C I Approved) offers training programmes for graduates in Post graduation in Ophthalmology.