DRISHTI 2026

The long felt need of the ophthalmologists of Kerala to have a common forum for expressing their views and for group discussion of professional matters was fulfilled on 22^nd Dec 1974. On that day Kerala State Ophthalmological Society was inaugurated by Dr. Benedict Rizuti, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, NewYork Medical College at Hotel Dwaraka, Ernakulam. A symposium on cataract was conducted on that day. On the previous days (20^th and 21^st of December 1974) a workshop on Keratoplasty, Glaucoma and Ptosis surgery and Orbit reconstruction was organised by Dr. Tony Fernandez at Little Flower Hospital Angamali where Dr. Rizuti and Dr. Martin Bodian of Newyork Medical college were the chief faculties.