It was a rare sight at the
Malleshwaram Mukhya Dak Ghar (Bangalore)on Tuesday. All the 80 employees turned up at the
office an hour before their duty hours. And it was for a cause.
Signing up to pledge their
eyes at an awareness programme on Tuesday, all the 80 employees of Malleshwaram
Post Office also vowed to carry the message of eye donation and its importance
to every household in their respective jurisdiction.
The programme was organised by
Narayana Nethralaya in coordination with the Eye Bank Association of India and
Dr. Rajkumar Eye Bank to mark the 30th eye donation fortnight that was observed
from August 25 to September 8. K. Bhujang Shetty, chairperson of Narayana
Nethralaya, said nearly two million are waiting for corneal transplants in
India, while only about 50,000 corneal donations are made in the country. Dr.
Shetty said the hospital had got 1,372 eye donations in 2014.
The hospital has now started
sensitising people to encourage people in their neighbourhoods to donate eyes
by becoming grief counsellors. “We have realised that just getting people to
pledge eyes is not enough as the families of people, who pledge their eyes,
need to inform the hospital soon after the death of the person concerned if
donation has to become possible,”he said.
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