EYE DONATION
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https://doi.org/10.70066/jahm.v3i4.266Keywords:
Eye donation, eye, cornea, keratoplasty, blindnessAbstract
Eye is the peripheral organ of sight. Sight is a gift by God but unfortunately the blind people can’t enjoy it.In India approximately 1% of the people are blind and the major causes of blindness include cataract, Glaucoma, refractive errors and corneal blindness. The causes other than corneal blindness are delt satisfactorily. In case of corneal blindness, there are lacunas, keratoplasty is the only option for treatment.The only source of cornea is human donor’s cornea. The demand of cornea is India is almost 1.5 lacks/annum. On the contrary number of cornea retrieval is about 35000 to 50000 per year. There are various misconcepts, lack of knowledge regarding eye donation and regional imbalances (in India) which needs to be minimized.Hence, to meet the increasing demand of corneas to provide vision to corneal blind, it is necessary to make eye donation popular. This is an attempt to highlight the points regarding eye donation and measures to be taken to accelerate the eye donation by various Government and non Government organizations. These programs should be widely implemented along with the help of religious organization and educational institutes, industry which can increase the awareness of eye donation. Also it needs to strengthen the eye banks, eye surgeons and trained man power for effective counseling, collection of eyeballs and its proper utilization. So every person should pledge to donate eyes and make eye donation popular.
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