August 25th TO September 8th is celebrated as National Eye
Donation Fortnight.To create awareness among the publicabout the need to donate eyes,Dr.Agarwal's Eye Hospital held
Walkathon.About 200 school students partcipated in the event.
Traffcic Police from Bengaluru city came forward to donate eyes.
At present,there are only 35,000 eye donors in India which should be
increased. Dr. Ram Mirlay,Head,Clinical Services,Dr.Agarwal's Eye
Hospital said," One out of every three blind person in the world lives
in India & if just 1% of our population pledge to donate their eyes,
the supply of corneas would be enough to completely cure the blindness
in the country." he further said that anybody can donate the eyes except
those suffering from HIV,Malaria etc. The eyes have to be removed within
6 hours of death of the patient.
"Nethra Dhan is Sarva Shrreshta Dhan" is the slogan to promote Eye
Donation .
