Pramesh S Jain
Highlights:
• Karnataka is a model for all the states in eye donation, which is possible due to health care entrepreneurs.Health care industry in Karnataka is accessible to all.
• Ayushman Bharat scheme is very helpful. Karnataka Govt is ensuring more and more health Care Facilities helping every person,be it in government or private.
• Especially Private hospitals in state must work towards creating awareness on eye donation, more so in rural areas.
• Dr.MC Modi built eye hospitals and dreamt of vision for all. He performed lakhs of surgeries during his 40 years of service and cured eye problems of millions of people. Dr Modi’s service is a model for all.
Private hospitals should create more awareness towards eye donation says Minister Dr K Sudhakar.
After we die,if our eyes can give vision to another person,there is no big fulfillment than that said Dr.K Sudhakar,Minister of Health and Medical Education.
He was speaking at the inauguration of Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital in Indiranagar in Bengaluru.
Dr.Sudhakar said that blindness is a very painful thing.No matter who we are, it is with our eyes that we can see the nature created by almighty.
It is estimated that more than 4 crore people in the world have blindness.India needs 1 lakh eye donations every year.
But,in fact the donors we get is only 5% of the requirement.The lack of eye donors is haunting us, 10.8 lakh children in the country are blind, Sudhakar said.
Eye donation has further reduced due to covid.
Superstitions surrounding eye donation is still widespread, though donating is a noble cause. There is a misconception that if eye is removed from the corpse, the face will be disfigured.
This isn’t true.Great people like Kannada icon Dr. Rajkumar and recently Power star Puneet Raj Kumar, who met with an untimely death have donated their eyes.
Millions of people have seen their mortal remains,which was as it was when they were alive.Urge everyone to donate eyes, said Dr K.Sudhakar.
