Need for quality eye care centres in small towns and villages

To a large extent our urban population has reached a stage where they know of the risk associated with Cataract.They know how delaying it can even cause blindness.Thanks to this awareness,there are hardly any cases of somebody getting blind because of cataract in cities.But same can not be said about the rural population,there we still have high percentage of people losing sight because of the cataract.Wish we could replicate the success reached in cities to small towns and villages.If we can do it at the level of small town and village,we can easily bring down the overall cases of blindness in the country.The government is doing its bit but private sector should complement it.Solution to this lies in PPP model ,if adopted it can do wonders.
PPP model has been explored in infrastructure  sector ,on similar lines it can be tried in the health sector as well.What has been seen is that in cities there is high number of eye clinics offering cataract surgeries,leading to high competition.Where as in small towns and rural towns there is any good eye centres leading to these people flocking to cities for these minor procedures.Now the private sector does not go to the rural centres as people their lack the capacity to pay and general infrastructure required is lacking.If private sector can bring their costs down to reasonable level and government can subsidise the balance,to a large extent the underserving of the people in the rural sector can be checked. Quality eye care will reach the ones who need it the most and incidence of the blindness in the country can be brought down drastically.