Architectural Design consists of examples and models, design principles such as hygiene, technology, function, community design, beauty, economic issues, and development process. This module is useful for several different architectural projects such as building anew facility on a new site, adding another building to the current site , acquiring an existing building and renovating it, renting an existing bilding and negotiating with the landlord to make changes to and redesigning and renovating the current building.

Currently there is no planning tool available for starting an eye hospital. Many hospitals are started without adequate planning and after execution end up under utilizing resources like manpower, equipment, etc and having to remodel their building design. This can be avoided by assessing the magnitude of blindness, estimating the workload, planning the manpower, estimating the income & expenditure, cost recovery and determining the price for services during the initial stage.

A tool can be developed to estimate the magnitude of blindness for the service area and based on the current performance - assess the gap which can be the basis for estimating the potential workload for the hospital. Several templates of building plans can be created so that the hospital can make modifications based on the available land area and the workload. Project management templates with various tasks for starting an eye hospital can be created with duration and person responsible. This will help the hospital to estimate the time duration required for completing the construction and setting up the hospital before the hospital can be opened to the public. The earlier tool on workload estimation & financial projections can be used along with this tool.

 Community Outreach Initiatives consists of purposes of community outreach, community outreach activities in various fields and more challenges in community outreach and how to overcome it for improving patient awareness and increasing the uptake of cataract services.

This manual provides information on the general maintenance of the ophthalmic instruments and equipments, its management, maintenance protocol with some simple electrical calculations.

 Financial Sustainability consists of examples and models, cost recovery issues, and cost recovery principles such as pricing, accountability etc. and also a cost recovery exercise to record lessons learned in the achievement of cost recovery in eye care programmes, to describe the factors and principles to consider when implementing cost recovery measures for financial sustainability, and to remind those responsible for economic development, costing decisions and financial decisions to ask the right questions to the right people at the right time in the planning process.