Cornea Collection: Cornea Collection Centres To Be Constituted In All Districts |

Jaipur: Acting on proper implementation of blindness control policy of the state, the health department will set up cornea collection centres in all the districts of the state. Currently, only nine cornea collection centres run by the state government are functional in the state. The department has claimed that the state is the first in the country to provide right to sight to its people by formulating a separate policy on it.
Additional chief secretary (health) Shubhra Singh has directed the officials to implement the policy for blindness control effectively.
In the state, six keratoplasty centres are functional in the state, which will be expanded to all the divisional headquarters for corneal graft. The patients who require surgery for the removal of a damaged cornea and replace it with healthy donor tissue, will benefit from the expansion of keratoplasty centres. For setting up new keratoplasty centres, the health department has started training of doctors at SMS Hospital from September 1.
Dr Sunil Singh, joint director (blindness control), health department said, “We will ensure proper functioning of all the six eye banks in the state. New eye banks will be established in all the government medical colleges of the state. In the private sector, the number of eye banks will be increased from three to nine eye banks, one each in all the nine private medical colleges of the state.”
With proper treatment and effective measures, the rate of blindness in the state will be reduced with the help of the new policy for controlling blindness. TNN