Dr Namrata Sharma, Secretary,
Eye Bank Association of India and Professor of Opthalmology at RP Eye Centre said that only 15
eye banks are registered across the country.
A large number of corneas, however, were wasted because we didn't have proper storage facilities in the country,' he said, while explaining the need for an
eye bank.
This selfless act became the initiative for doctors, nurses, and other health personnel to move mountains and grant their wish to give the gift of sight to those in need," the
Eye Bank Philippines added.
Several authors found that thickness of the lamellae measured in the
eye bank preoperatively and post-operatively did not correspond.
NHSBT's
eye banks in Manchester and Bristol need at least 350 corneas to supply demand for patients in hospitals.
Mississippi Lions
Eye Bank Partners in Vision Award--Garden Park Medical Center in Gulfport
Eversight was founded in 1947 as the fourth
eye bank in the United States (originally as the Illinois
Eye Bank).
ISLAMABAD:Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital has started establishing first-ever state-of-the-art
eye bank in Pakistan in collaboration with an American NGO to collect corneal donations within the country.
FAISALABAD -- First ever
Eye Bank has been established at Ophthalmology Ward of Allied Hospital with the cooperation of Lyallpur Eye Trust (LET) for the preservation of eye corneas.
KARACHI -- The inaugural ceremony of Cataract Eye Surgery Camp would be held at Pakistan
Eye Bank Society (PEBS) Hospital North Karachi on Wednesday (today).
Manual repetitive documentation and manual data transfer between the eye hospital and the
eye bank risk processing errors and do not guarantee a high safety level or auditability.
When the South African Police Services controlled and managed the forensic mortuaries, the
eye bank directors had easy access to the details of the deceased in these mortuaries and so could contact the next of kin, and these mortuaries were the main source of corneal donors at the time.
According to the Pakistan
Eye Bank Society, there is a dire need to launch a movement for eye donation in Pakistan as blindness was on the rise in the country.
The minister toured the hospital's sections, including outpatient clinics, radiology section, diabetes center, operating rooms, intensive care unit, medical television, laboratory,
eye bank, stem cell laboratory, central pharmacy and the outpatient clinics pharmacy.
