To keep the staff updated on latest developments and build their capacities, CHEERS ensures that their staff participate in ongoing Continuing Health Professional Education (CHPE) programs either at the Hospital or other    venues. Various professional development programs related to blindness, low vision, retina, orthoptics, vitro retina, pediatric ophthalmology, Strabismus, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), ENT, Functional Endoscopic Sinus    Surgery (FESS), Basic First Aid and Administration Management have been organized over the years and continue to do so. Senior specialists from prestigious institutions from the Netherlands, the UK, the US and Japan visitedCHEERS in the last six years to build the capacities of the staff. Besides many of the staff members have been sent to other institutions in and outside the country for trainings. There are clinical and community internship/elective programs available for students from certificate to post graduate level at CHEERS. Students (both national and international) have undergone electives/internships in health management care, optometry, audiology, speech pathology, nursing and general medicine at the Hospital. These students acquire defined clinical skills under the supervision of ophthalmologists, ENT specialists, optometrists and audiologists. A total of 4,911 people have been beneficiaries (shown in Table 2) of capacity building programs in the past six years.