KIDROP is India's first (2008) and now the world's largest Tele-medicine network to tackle infant blindness from Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP).
Using cutting edge technology, an award winning, indigenously developed, customized tele-Ophthalmology platform, KIDROP screens the retinae (the nerve of the eye, which lies at the back) of babies a few days old in their rural hospitals, provides remote diagnosis of these images by experts and provides for treatment of these babies in the periphery without the need for these babies to travel to the city. All this is achieved by a team of specially trained non doctors, obviating the need of the specialist in the rural areas.
