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Over 500,000 eye operations are done by one group of hospitals in India every year.

The Aravind Eye Hospital began in 1976 after Doctor Govindappa Venkataswamy visited McDonald's Hamburger University.

He thought about the way McDonald's does business.

Venkataswamy had the idea to make hospitals which worked the same way.

His first hospital opened with 11 beds.

Now, there are Aravind Eye Hospitals across India.

There are 10 million blind people in India.

About 50 million have eyesight problems like cataracts.

This can be fixed with an operation, says director of Aravind Eye Hospital, Thulasiraj Ravilla.

Many operations were delayed because of the pandemic.

The hospitals are now working longer hours so that they can help more people.

The operations are very quick.

But only two out of every 10,000 people get an infection after surgery.

The chance of infection is lower than in the UK and US.

Patients aren't worried about the "McDonald's" system.

They're happy that the operation's quick.

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