The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is an eye-care network, established by Dr. Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, an ophthalmologist, at Hyderabad, in 1986.

[2] LVPEI is a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre, and an affiliate hospital of Harvard Medical School.

[citation needed] Before the institute was established, the renowned Indian filmmaker Sri Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasad Rao, popularly known as L V Prasad, decided to invest a portion of the profits from his blockbuster film Ek Duuje Ke Liye towards a noble cause.

[15] The institute offers rehabilitation services for persons with visually impairment,[16] and in 2018 it inaugurated a 'Special Needs Vision Clinic' to provide eye care to children with developmental delays and disabilities.

LVPEI network has 275 eye-care centres across the states of Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh:[15] The secondary and primary care centers provide medical facilities to the remotest rural areas of the country.