The hospital follows an 80:20 business model, in which 80 per cent of the patients from rural parts of the country are treated for free, and the remaining 20 per cent are the rich and the middle income sections of the society, who pay for their treatment, thereby cross-subsidizing the free surgeries and making the Hospital self-sustaining.

[4] The origins of Sankara Eye Foundation can be traced back to the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust.

Sankara Eye Hospital was thus established in Sivanandapuram, Coimbatore on the land donated by Late N. Natraj & Family.

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Sankara Eye Hospital, was established in the year 2004 (March).

The hospital functions as a facility performing day care surgery with an operation theatre complex, outpatient clinics and optical services.

This hospital is designed to deliver eye treatment related with Cornea, Retina, Glaucoma, and Diabetic retinopathy to the both rural and urban peoples of Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

The Sankara Eye Bank Coimbatore started functioning from 1987 to promote organ and tissue donation through a program of public and professional education and donor registration; and to procure and distribute eye tissue for transplant surgery.