If everyone donates their eyes after life, we can create a visionless society, says GRH Dean

Madurai Medical College students rally for eye donation awareness, emphasizing the urgent need for more donors.

Observing the 39th Eye Donation Fortnight celebration at Government Rajaji Hospital, doctors, nurses and medical students of Madurai Medical College carried out a rally from Indian Medical Association Hall premises to GRH here on Tuesday. 

About 200 students, who participated in the rally, held placards and banners appreciating the need for eye donation at a time when the world witnesses numerous vision losers.  

C. Dharmaraj, Dean, GRH, speaking at the rally, said that several factors like custom, fear of facial distortion, etc., were some of the reasons for people hesitant to donate their eyes.  

“When we need about one lakh eyes every year to perform eye donations, the total number we get is only about 40,000, which is far less than the required,” Dr. Dharmaraj noted.  

“But, at the same time, when we look at the rate of deaths, it can be said that there would be no problem of blindness if all of them donated their eyes,” he added.  

Just a simple imagination of how a person without vision lives his life would be enough for someone to change their mind to help other people in need, he said.  

Speaking about the procedure for eye donation, the Dean said that anyone can register their willingness for an eye or any other organ donation at any point of their life.