The world's only eye clinic operating out of an aircraft touched down at Jaipur's Sanganer Airport on Sunday.

The DC 10 aircraft is a functioning eye hospital with the latest machines on board. It has a laser treatment centre, operation theatre, nursing and biomedical engineering training areas along with sitting capacity of 48 people.

"This is the only plane in the entire world and the only flying eye hospital. Inside the plane we have a surgical suite, recovery room, audio-visual centre and a communication centre. We used this plane to help trained local medical professional specialists in eye care," says Perry Athanason, Communication Manager, Flying Hospital, ORBIS.

The motive behind introducing the flying eye hospital is to cure blind people and to exchange knowledge from international experts as it flies to other destinations, world-wide.

"The main concept behind this is teaching. We wish to engage with the surgeons here in order to teach them the skills they would like to learn from us. In this process we would like to learn a lot from them too," Robert Walters, Chairman of Trustees (United Kingdom), ORBIS.

The eye hospital will stay at Jaipur airport till October 3 and would operate on around five eye patients per day.