In Chhattisgarh there are 202 registered people who are bereft of eye sight and are awaiting eye donation eagerly. On the hand, 123 people have come forward to donate their eyes and have registered themselves for the purpose.
According to health department officials, an eye check up drive was launched last month during which camps were organised in one block of every district in the State. Fortunately, during the drive neither patient of serious eye ailment nor any new eye disease came in to light. But during the drive 123 people came forward expressing their desire to donate their eyes. The department has enrolled them on eye donators’ list. Health Department’s State Programme Officer (Blindness) Dr Subhash Mishra termed the eye check up drive fruitful in a number of ways.
Due to the drive it became clear that neither any patient has serious eye ailment nor any serious eye disease was spreading in the masses of Chhattisgarh. According to him during the drive team of doctors encountered only cataract and minor eye ailment cases. According to Dr Mishra, during the drive launched in collaboration of NGO’s a number of cases came forward to donate their eyes which would eventually help those who lost their eye sight. He said that in the state 202 people were awaiting eye transplant and for which his department is trying hard. In the eye donation fortnight scheduled to be launched in August, the number of eye donators is likely to go up, he expressed the hope.