India's Aravind Eye Care System Gets Hilton Prize

    This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
    这里是VOA慢速英语发展报告。

    An eye care organization in India is being honored for its efforts. On Tuesday, Aravind Eye Care System will receive the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The award will be presented in Redwood City, California, during a conference of the Global Philanthropy Forum.
    印度的一个眼科医疗机构因其所做出的贡献而获得殊荣。周二,亚拉文眼科医疗集团将被授予康瑞德.希尔顿人道主义奖。颁奖仪式将在加州红杉城举行的全球慈善论坛会议期间举
    行。

    Conrad Hilton, who made his wealth in the hotel industry, established the humanitarian prize in nineteen ninety-six. Each year the award is given to a charitable or nongovernmental organization working to end human suffering. The prize includes one and a half million dollars.
    康瑞德.希尔顿于发迹于酒店业,于1996年创立了人道主义奖。每年,该奖项颁发给那些致力于消除人类痛苦的慈善机构或非政府组织。该奖项的奖金数额为150万美元。

    Aravind Eye Care System is being recognized for its work with millions of people in India.
    在印度,亚拉文眼科医疗集团因为为数百万人服务而广为熟知。

    Retired eye surgeon Govindappa Venkataswamy established the organization in nineteen seventy-six. He wanted to make high quality eye care available to all, especially India's poor. He wanted to prevent needless cases of blindness.
    退休眼科医生Govindappa Venkataswamy在1976年创立了这个机构。他期望提供面向所有人的高质量的眼科医疗服务,尤其是印度的贫困人群。他期望避免不必要的失明病例出现。

    Eight out of ten people with vision problems live in developing countries. The World Health Organization says eighty-five percent of all vision problems could be prevented or cured. That includes seventy-five percent of all blindness.
    80%的存在视力障碍的人生活在发展中国家。世界卫生组织称85%的视力障碍可以预防或治愈,这包括75%的失明患者。

    An estimated forty-five million people are blind, and India is home to ten million of them.
    全球估计有4500万的盲人,而印度就有1000万人。

    Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, in Tamil Nadu state, with only eleven beds. Today Aravind Eye Care System is the largest eye care provider in the world. It operates five hospitals and more than thirty eye care centers across India.
    Venkataswamy医生在泰米尔纳德邦的马杜拉市开设了第一家Aravind眼科医院,当时仅有11张床位。如今,Aravind眼科医疗集团是世界上最大的眼科医疗机构,在印度设有5家医
    院和30多家眼科医疗中心。

    About seventy percent of the patients receive free care. The money comes from the thirty percent of patients who can pay for their services.
    大约70%的患者享受免费治疗,资金来源于那些能够支付治疗费用的30%的患者。

    In nineteen ninety-two, Aravind established what was described as Asia's first training center for the prevention of blindness. Support from the SightFirst program of Lions Club International financed the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology.
    1992年,Aravind创立了被称为亚洲第一家的预防失明训练中心。国际狮子会(备注1)的SightFirst计划为Aravind社区眼科研究所提供资金支持。

    Also, the Aravind Medical Research Foundation investigates the causes and treatment of eye disease.
    同时,Aravind医学研究基金会还积极探索眼科疾病的起因和治疗方法。

    Aravind Eye Care System has been recognized internationally. Its work has been used as a model for establishing similar programs around the world.
    Aravind眼科医疗集团已被世界所熟知,其架构被视为在全球建立类似程序的模型。

    备注1:国际狮子会俱乐部协会(The International Association of Lions Clubs)简称国际狮子会(Lions Clubs International),是一个国际性的慈善服务社团,是联合国经社理事会所联系的非政府团体组织。狮子俱乐部在1990年筹集了超过1亿4千万美元的资金,在五大洲40多个国家开展了SightFirst计划,有效地对付全世界日益增加的失明问题。