Eye Banks in Gandhinagar
Eye banks are institutions that are take up the responsibility of collecting and then processing corneas that are donated by people and also distributing the corneas to corneal implant surgeons who are trained enough at their work. The eye banks are generally regulated by the local health system present in a state or city and eye banks are also considered to be an important part of the local health system of a state or a city. Eye banks in India are generally found to be attached with major hospitals and there are some eye banks in India that possess separate buildings for the proper execution of their responsibilities. Eye banks that are located in India and abroad carry out the process of cornea harvesting through surgery. Corneal harvesting is a process where the cornea or the whole eye of a dead person is removed through surgery. There are many eye banks located in Gandhinagar that carry out the process of corneal harvesting. Not only Gandhinagar, but some of the major cities of India are found to possess certain eye banks that are very good at executing their services in the form of eye banks that are generally established for the well-being of the citizens of any country or state.
The eye banks in Gandhinagar have trained personnel in the eye care department such as ophthalmologists, eye technicians and even general practitioners who carry out the process of corneal harvesting in the perfect manner and without any kind of mistake. The eye banks in Gandhinagar recover and then preserve eyes for the purpose of research and cornea transplants. The people of Gandhinagar are generally not very informed about the way they can help those who are blind by way of donating their eyes and this is the reason why the rate of cornea donation in Gandhinagar is very low inspite of the availability of major eye banks in the city. Eye banks in Gandhinagar do suffer from the shortage of corneas because most of the people in the city are not bent towards donating their eyes after death.
The names and the contact details of some of the most popular and satisfactory service providing eye banks in Gandhinagar have been mentioned below:
- C S Shamaruia Red Cross International Eye Bank
Phone - 079 - 27413333, 27450633, 27413333, 27495333
- Lion Sharad Mehta Eye Bank, Thaltej
- Eye Care Nxg
Phone: (079) 23244666
- S.G.M.Eye Bank Trust And Research Foundation
Phone: (0836) 2385395
- Eye Hospital, Gandhinagar
Phone: 07923229563
Efforts are being made by the local government in Gandhinagar and also be some of the social workers in the city towards increasing the number of cornea donators in the city and at the same time towards increasing the number of eye banks in Gandhinagar.