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Mahatme Eye Bank Eye Hospital operates an active and dedicated Eye Bank, serving as a vital contributor to restoring vision in the region. In the financial year 2023–24, the Eye Bank successfully collected 84 eye balls. Out of these, 36 corneal transplants were performed by our expert cornea surgeons, bringing new light into the lives of patients suffering from corneal blindness.
As a key part of our mission to eliminate preventable blindness, the Eye Bank functions under the highest medical standards and follows all regulatory protocols. The cornea services are backed by a skilled team of surgeons and trained technicians, ensuring that every transplant is carried out with precision and care.
The Eye Bank plays an essential role in complementing our outreach activities by ensuring timely availability of donor corneas, especially for patients coming from underprivileged and remote areas. Many of these patients are identified during our Perennial Community Outreach Programs, where a mobile team regularly screens people in rural, tribal, and urban slum communities. Selected patients are then brought to the base hospital in Nagpur for free surgical treatment, including corneal surgeries when needed.
Empowering Vision, TogetherTo restore sight and improve quality of life by promoting eye donation, ensuring ethical collection and preservation of corneal tissue, and providing accessible, high-quality corneal transplantation services. We are committed to spreading awareness, encouraging community participation, and advancing clinical excellence in eye banking for a world where no one suffers from avoidable blindness.
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The process of donating the eyes of a loved one after his or her death by his or her relatives is called Eye donation. It’s a purely voluntary gesture.
In India, there are 1.1 million patients who are blind due to an opaque cornea. Most of these patients are young adults and children who have a long life to live. Fortunately, their eyesight can be restored by replacing their opaque corneas with a healthy transparent one from a donor. They can enjoy good eyesight for the rest of their lives because they have healthy and normally functioning inner structures. Thus eye donation is important to give the noble gift of sight to all cornea blind patients.
A common citizen of India, like you, can do a lot to help in this noble cause. First, you can pledge to donate your own eyes after your death and make your wish known to your close relatives. Second, you can donate the eyes of your loved ones after their deaths and encourage your friends and relatives to do so too. It can be made a family tradition. Third, you can provide monetary assistance, as per your capabilities, to your nearest eye bank to continue their activities. Fourth, you can act as a Volunteer and Ambassador for eye donation in your communities and carry out small awareness programs.
A person of any gender, age, religion, race, caste, and creed can donate eyes after death. Having diseases like Diabetes or high Blood pressure are not roadblocks to eye donation. A person who had had cataracts, glaucoma, or retinal surgery in their lifetime too, can donate eyes after death.
That’s perfectly true. There are many reasons for blindness. Diseases of the Retina (the light sensitive layer of the eye), Optic nerve (connection of eye and brain), or the brain itself can cause blindness. In all these cases the Cornea of the blind person may be absolutely healthy which can be donated after death to benefit others. Imagine a camera with a burnt film or poor sensor. You can still detach its perfectly good lens and attach it to another camera. It’s the same.
It does not matter, if you are the rightful heir, next-of-kin, or a close relative of the deceased person you can give permission (legal consent) on their behalf, for eye donation. Indian law has a provision known as “Implied Consent” wherein, it is assumed that the deceased was willing to donate eyes unless he/she had expressly forbidden anyone to do so during his/her lifetime.
We may take the whole eye or only the corneal button as per the need but in any case, a very precise retrieval technique is followed in which there is no disfigurement of the deceased’s face.
No, in some cases we also use the sclera (white outer cover of the eye). The junction of the cornea and sclera is the location of highly specialized cells called stem cells which can be used to treat cases of severe ocular surface injury like Chemical burns of the eye, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and other diseases where these cells may be deficient in the recipient.
If you wish to donate your eyes after death, simply call up your nearest eye bank and ask for their pledge card. You can fill in your name and of all those in your family who wish to donate eyes and submit it to the eye bank. They will provide you with a donor card which you need to carry all the time. Most importantly, you should also inform your close relatives of your wish to donate eyes after death.