{"id":10245,"date":"2020-12-16T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2020-12-16T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T09:14:11","slug":"lvpei-bags-unique-global-award-the-greenberg-prize-end-blindness-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2020\/12\/16\/lvpei-bags-unique-global-award-the-greenberg-prize-end-blindness-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"LVPEI\u00a0bags unique global award:\u00a0\u2018The Greenberg Prize \u2013 End Blindness 2020\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>For noteworthy contribution to eliminate blindness\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>Bhubaneswar: 16 December 2020\u00a0 ( Odisha Samachar )- <\/strong>\u00a0L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is the proud recipient of the highly prestigious \u2018<strong>The Greenberg Prize \u2013 End Blindness 2020\u2019<\/strong>. The winners were chosen based on the strength of their contributions to eliminate blindness. Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chair, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute received this award in the \u2018Outstanding Achievement Prize\u2019 category. LVPEI shares the award &amp; 3$ Million prize with one more organization in India.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10246 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LVPEI-3-Gullapalli-Rao-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LVPEI-3-Gullapalli-Rao-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LVPEI-3-Gullapalli-Rao-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LVPEI-3-Gullapalli-Rao.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI feel humbled and honoured to accept this prestigious award on behalf of over 3000 members at L V Prasad Eye Institute and its numerous supporters globally. Eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020 has been an aspiration of t+he global eye care community for over two decades. I want to place on record our gratitude to Sanford and Susan Greenberg End Blindness Foundation for recognizing our contribution,\u201d said a thrilled Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;End Blindness&#8217; was a movement to eradicate blindness created by Dr Sanford Greenberg, who had himself lost his eyes at 19 years of his age, and his wife Susan. It was announced in 2012 to recognise the work of the scientific and medical communities who pioneered in the fight to end blindness, between then and 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For noteworthy contribution to eliminate blindness\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Bhubaneswar: 16 December 2020\u00a0 ( Odisha Samachar )- \u00a0L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is the proud recipient of the highly prestigious \u2018The Greenberg Prize \u2013 End Blindness 2020\u2019. The winners were chosen based on the strength of their contributions to eliminate blindness. Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chair, L.V. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10248,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions\/10248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}