Eye Donation

In developing countries, 35 million people are blind or blind, and most people can heal. Of 3 million blind people, 60% are children under 12 years old. Corneal target search in Indian eye bank is 150,000 corneas a year.

The number of people waiting for a corneal transplant exceeds the number of available donor tissues. Corneal transplantation is the only effective repair to replace the human tissue in the eye. For millions of people around the world, this is considered a precious and possessive visual gift.

1. The eyes must be removed within 4 to 6 hours after death and should be immediately notified to the nearest eye bank.

Remember that only the transparent part called the cornea is taken out instead of the complete eye

People who are using eyeglasses, myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism can still donate, as people who are undergoing cataract surgery may not affect the cornea.

Patients without diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and infection can also donate their eyes.

People with AIDS, hepatitis B or hepatitis C, rabies, septicemia, acute leukemia, tetanus, cholera, meningitis or encephalitis infection or death can not donate their eyes.

Eye donated to Eye-Bank is medically inappropriate for medical research and education

Raise your head 6 inches with a pillow to prevent bleeding when you take your eyes off.

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

3. To find new technology, to improve preservation methods and to train corneal surgeons, conduct corneal studies with eyes that are not suitable for transplantation

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.