Status
of donor eyes in India
There is a
severe lack of donor eyes in India and only 4.500 operations are being performed every
year, while 30,000 new victims are added each year to the long list of 7 lakh patients
already waiting to be cured. Although there are enough qualified surgeons and plenty of
potential patients, corneal transplantation cannot be carried out due to lack of donor
corneas. Eye donation means people pledging to donate their eyes after death to be used
for corneal grafting for restoring sight to corneal blind people. In India there are more
than 80 lakh deaths every year but sadly the corneal donations do not exceed a few
thousand.
The reason for
very low number of eye donations are manifold
Lack of
awareness in general public
Improper
development of infrastructure
Absence
of motivation even among the trained personnel or
Social
and religious taboos
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