It is named after Sarojini Naidu, a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet (also known as The Nightingale of India).

[2] It is the primary hospital for eye treatment for the poor and underprivileged in and around Hyderabad.

Some of the faculty members have undergone fellowship training programme in the sub specialties The institute has “State of the Art” equipment and technology to treat diseases in general ophthalmology and specialities.

The hospital made news all over India and in the US in 1980, when doctors operated and removed the healthy eye from a 2-year-old girl, Nasreen Banu, instead of the cancerous one, blinding her for life.

The incident created a furor in India resulting in the Government of India sending Nasreen Banu to the United States for treatment at its expense, where the other cancerous eye was operated and removed.