"Last year, AIIMS retrieved about 2,234
cornea tissues which is the highest number till date in the past 50 years.
He said that so far the Sight Foundation had donated 25,000 eyes
cornea to the people of Pakistan and would be enhancing the numbers further.
He said that so far the Sight foundation has donated 25,000 eyes
cornea to the people of Pakistan and will be enhancing the numbers further.
The bank will store
corneas from local donation and use them for the treatment of people with corneal blindness.
Ideally a
cornea donation should take place within 24 hours of the donor's death, and it is always better if families have discussed the possibility of donation at some point as it makes the process easier.
However, he noted that 'it was a matter of concern that we do not have any trend of eye donations or facilities for preservation of
Cornea in Pakistan.'
It reminds staff about tissue donation and the criteria for the process.The size of a credit card, it tucks into the back of staff identification badges.Tissues that can be donated after death include
corneas, heart valves, skin and tendons.
About 4,000
cornea transplants are carried out each year in the UK alone, and around 117,000 in the US.
It's not a cure for short-sightedness because the
cornea usually returns to its normal shape, but it may reduce reliance on lenses for some people.
He informed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar and representatives of Lions Clubs International was already singed to re-launch
cornea transplantation surgery in the oldest eye care hospital of Sindh province run by KMC.
Dr Juan Guillermo Arbelaez, Muscat Eye Laser Center's
cornea and refractive surgeon and associate scientific director, presented his latest research in ophthalmology at the 36th Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) held recently in Vienna, Austria.
A HUDDERSFIELD toddler is at the forefront of a campaign encouraging people to become
cornea donors when they die after it emerged that eye bank stocks are running low.
The project, which was described in Experimental Eye Research, holds potential for addressing the international shortage in human donor
corneas. The gel, or 'bio-ink,' took less than 10 minutes to print into the concentric circles of a human
cornea.
Cornea transplants are one solution to the issue, but there happens to be a worldwide shortage of
corneas.
