Career
Has established a & Eye Hospital run by SMM Eye welfare Charitable trust & is a Government recognized Eye Bank with maximum corneal retrieval & usage in the Nagpur, Maharashtra, region. Eye Bank was started in 1987. What began as his one-room, one-man operation in 1986 evolved into one of the most extensive charitable ophthalmic hospitals in the country, the and Eye Hospital, in Nagpur.
Doctor Mahatme received his medical degree in ophthalmology from Nagpur University in 1983.
He lectured at the Government Medical College in Nagpur until 1985, then founded the Mahatme Eye Hospital in 1986. As a faculty surgeon, Doctor Mahatme has conducted innumerable phaco and skill-transfer workshops, and he has performed live surgical demonstrations in India and abroad.
He has performed more than 70,000 cataract surgeries and 35,000 phaco cataract surgeries, and he has compiled his techniques into a book, Step by Step Phaco Tips & Tricks, published in 2005. He developed the woodcutter nucleus cracking†phacoemulsification technique, in which a phaco tip is used instead of a chopper to divide the nucleus.
The technique works especially well on hard nuclei and is gaining popularity in India and abroad, he said.
Other contributions to the field include a filtration-enhancing knot used in trabeculectomy, as well as developing pigment for cosmetic corneal tattooing. In addition to clinical training courses, Doctor Mahatme runs training courses for ophthalmic technicians, hospital assistants and computer technicians. When Doctor Mahatme founded the in 1987, 1 year after establishing the hospital, there was little progress being made in eye banking.
Now the is one of the most active eye banks in the region, providing corneas free of charge to eye surgeons nationwide.
Doctor Mahatme is an executive committee member representing Maharashtra in the Eye Bank Association of India. Doctor Mahatme also oversees blindness control programs within the hospital network.
A mobile eye care unit, Van for Vision, services the Gondia region, a tribal area earmarked for cataract surgery. Van for Vision is a collaboration with Sightsavers International, Impact India and the Volkart Foundation.
This mobile health care clinic is equipped with the latest technology for identifying vision impairment.
Several projects have also been done in collaboration with HelpAge India. Institute of Science of Happiness Revolves around Personality Development & many workshops & courses are conducted for young students, parents as well as doctors.Pre-primary school for poor children Mahatme Sanskar Vihar offers education up to Nursery, Knight of the Order of the Garter -1 & Knight of the Order of the Garter-2.
