Eye Donation

Currently, residents of more than 400 BC need corneal transplantation. This number is expected to increase as the patient's population increases. By choosing an eye donation, an individual has the opportunity to leave heritage by providing an organ transplant for the eye for up to eight people.

Even if you wear glasses, blind people, cataracts and people with glaucoma can donate their eyes.

Complete a thorough medical history review at the time of death to ensure that a person is eligible for eye provision

The tissue can be used for further research and education to treat and prevent eye diseases

Donor families can obtain comfort by understanding the visual gifts provided by their loved ones.

Eye donation is an act of donating one eye after he / she dies. This is purely for the benefit of society and is a completely voluntary charity. Even if the dead do not promise to donate his / her eyes before the death, the deceased's eye donation can be approved by relatives and relatives. Age or systemic diseases such as diabetes or hypertension, heart disease, and kidney disease do not prevent blood donation. Even if you have undergone ophthalmic surgery in the past, the human cornea does not affect, so you can transplant it to other people.

Eye Bank is a non-profit community organization operated by medical director, eye bank manager, eye bank technician. It collects, evaluates and distributes the eyes of loved ones. All donated eyes are evaluated using strict medical standards. The eyes that turned out to be inappropriate for transplantation are used for valuable research and medical education

A wide range of social recognition programs and activities began nationwide to promote the importance of donating eyes and its usefulness to the visually impaired. So far medical researchers and scientists are working on the development of artificial cornea, but until that time donating eyes was the best gift for blind people with corneal blindness.

The establishment of Sri Lanka eye donation association is due to male work and inspiration. Dr. Hudson Silva. As a medical student in the 1950s, Silva recognized the need for donor cornea at Colombo Eye Hospital. At that time, the corn supply hanged on the gallows was "steady and poor" (Silva 1984, 19), but with the abolition of the death penalty in 1956, even this small supply was exhausted . Silva and his wife and mother have launched a campaign to encourage people to move forward as a provider of future eyes. This event began with an article issued by Sinhala Daily Lankadipa (January 19, 1958). Their campaign and its slogan "mala netata pana" stimulated the imagination of the world and thousands of volunteers promised to donate their eyes. The reaction is this, the cornea's cornea will soon appear in the local hospital