When you will not live! People will see the world with your eyes… Just think \ Eye Donation Cornea Transplant to Prevent Blindness In India AIIMS RP Center
AIIMS -based country’s largest eye center Dr. Radhika Tandon, Chief of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences She says that the eyes donated by you can bring light to the lives of 6 people, this is the work that is to be after your death and many lives can be handled, but for this there is a need to erase many misconceptions spread among the people about the donation and corneal transplantation. People feel that doctors will take out their eyes and it can cause illegal activities or smuggling of eye. However, it is not like that.
Experts of RP Center of AIIMS tell the importance of donation in eye donation Pakhwada
The cornea can be donated only after death and it is a very transparent process. When a person’s eye is taken by hospitals or I bank, it is processed and applied to the most qualified and accurate patient. So that people have lost their eyesight from corneal diseases, they can get their light back. They can see again. This is the reason that the Government of India is also promoting eye donation.
Dr. says that whatever person who resolves I donation, they should understand that they have helped the biggest help of humanity. There can be no more happiness than this. Many people feel that donating the eye after death will cause the face to be damaged or will not be able to see, then this confusion also needs to be removed. Whenever the cornea is taken, the whole eye is not extracted, but some layers in front of the eye are removed, or say that the eye is just removed, and when it is taken out, the eye remains the same as before, there is no difference.
RP Center, AIIMS doing big work
AIIMS located National Eye Bank Chairperson Dr. Namrata Sharma Told that more than 36,000 cornea has been collected in the bank which came in the last 60 years and the eyesight of more than 26,000 patients has been returned. In the year 2024, 1,931 cornea was collected, out of which 1,611 were taken from the hospital itself. This is 83%. The HCRP program of AIIMS Delhi has been very successful for eye donation and corneal transplant.
Dr. Namrata says that whenever a person tells for a donation, no one is forbidden. Any age, any way has died in any way, everyone’s cornea is taken. It is a different matter that not all of these corn can be transplanted in patients because some shortcomings also occur in them. However, 80 percent of the cornea in AIIMS is used for patients somewhere. The remaining cornea is used in educational experiments in the medical college.
Dr. Rajesh Sinha It is said that the RP center also treats cornea infection and complex cases. In 2024, 821 serious patients have been surgery. For the last 6 years, more than 1000 cornea transplants are being done every year in AIIMS. However, the number of patients is more for cornea transplant, for this, eye donation needs to be increased.
There itself Eye Surgeon Dr. Nervvet Lomi Told that for the surgery of patients with cataract or other corneal diseases coming to the hospital, cornea transplant is now done without stitches with new technology (DMK), which cures the patient quickly.
Cornia came with the help of drone
For the first time this year, AIIMS was used to bring a cornea with the help of drones. This could not only use time but also more tissue. Asperts reported that tissues are being collected for children for children with special surgery. Not only this, efforts are being made to connect the government hospitals of Delhi and NCR so that more and more eye donation can be done.
Let us know that to reduce dependence on donor cornea, work on Artificial Cornestic and other options is also being done. Bioinaginal cornea is also being made in collaboration with IIT Delhi, which will be used in emergency conditions.
