To promote eye donation on the occasion of Kali Puja, Cosmos Club Kali Puja Samiti at Burdwan Compound in Association with Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank and Eye Donation Awareness Club, has put up eye donation awareness posters in pandals. The puja samiti members, KMEB and EYEDAC have also put up a selfie point, which is attracting youngsters.
Chief Minister Hemant Soren also visited the Pandal in the evening on Wednesday and promoted eye donation by taking a photo at the selfie point. Selfie of Chief Minister's eye donation is giving big message for eye donation in Jharkhand
There is a lot of enthusiasm among the youth and children and they are taking photographs and filling the form of eye donation by making poses expressing various types of eye donation. Volunteers of Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Ranchi are encouraging youngsters to take pledge for the eye donation campaign. So far a total of 95 people have filled the affidavit of eye donation.
The interior decoration inside the puja pandal has been done on the theme of eye donation. It is shown that a blind man has gone out to see Kali Puja, but he is unable to see the joy of Puja. Yet the sound and touch coming from the speaker makes sense of everything. Understands by touching objects and also tells about it to others.
There is also an eye on the ceiling inside the pandal. There is a person, whose both eyes are closed with his hands. Outside, a blind person is reading from the Braille script and understanding the organization of the worship. Apart from this, how a blind woman gets cornea after the immersion of the idol of the mother and by the grace of Bhagwati that blind person gets vision. This theme is very well carved out of the painting.
A member of the Club committee said that this year, they have chosen eye donation as the central theme of Kali Puja festivities to break the taboo surrounding organ donation. People are being encouraged to donate their eyes so that they can continue to see the world even after their death.
Dr. Bharti Kashyap, Medical director, Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank Ranchi, said that keeping up the fervour of Kali Puja and Diwali, scores of men and women have signed the eye donation pledge forms.