tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199880292024-02-20T18:09:26.279+05:30Pledge and Donate Eyes :: Gift Your Sight :: Make It Your WISH!An Initiative To Bring Colors To A Blind's Life!Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-4060377048990685952008-09-24T16:16:00.000+05:302008-09-24T16:17:17.404+05:30Eye Donation/Pledging Awareness Week at HP India Office - Session 2!<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">One of our HP offices in Bangalore wanted to host the Eye Donation/Pledging Awareness Camp for 2nd session, as many people had shown interest for the 1st session but could not make it due to various reasons.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">So, yesterday (23-Sept-08) the Doctor from Prabha Eye Bank visited this office and we conducted this camp for nearly 3 hours...and the response that we got was just awesome...above all expectations! We collected nearly 125 pledges from the interested employees and hitting this 3-digit number is really a milestone by itself! </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Again, Thanks to everyone who opted for this camp and I wish they will spread the word among their friends and families!</span>
</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: verdana;">Gift Your Sight :: Make It Your Wish! </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">
</span><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: verdana;">http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight</span></span></a>
</div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-32533039678787212222008-09-13T08:20:00.001+05:302008-09-13T08:20:45.374+05:30Eye Donation/Pledging Awareness Week at HP India<span style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >This week (Sep 8th to Sep 12th 2008) I organized an Awareness campaign on Eye Donation/Pledging in my company, HP India. The Week was celebrated across multiple locations in HP Bangalore offices with the co-operation of Prabha Eye Bank c/o Prabha Eye Clinic, one of the oldest eye clinic's of Bangalore.
About the event, over the week the response was not so encouraging (better I will not speak about the numbers!) but Myself and the CSR club of HP did our best to get people aware of this noble cause. Thanks to everyone who opted for this camp and I wish they will spread the word among their friends and families!
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</span> </span> <div style="text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" >Gift Your Sight :: Make It Your Wish!</span><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">
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</div> </div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-41950211458784037032008-09-13T08:19:00.001+05:302008-09-13T08:19:55.345+05:30Donate eyes, help the blind, say docs<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An article in Times Of India, Bangalore edition (Page 5) related to Eye Donation Fortnight.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;">Donate eyes, help the blind, say docs </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">TIMES NEWS NETWORK </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;">Bangalore: The Bangalore West Lions super-specialty eye hospital will observe the 23rd National Eye Donation Fortnight to spread awareness on eye donation from August 25 to September 8. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> During these 15 days, the hospital will disseminate information about corneal blindness, the importance for eye donation and who can donate eyes and encourage people to donate eyes. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> About 45,000 corneal graftings are required in the country but only 20,000 are being done now as not many donors are ready, says Dr Rekha Gyanchand. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> Dr Rekha said one person in the world goes blind every second, one child goes blind every minute and 60% of them are less than 12 years. There are around 45 million visually challenged persons in the world. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> People with diabetes or using spectacles or having hypertension can make eye donation but those who died due to infections caused by rabies, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, septicemia and AIDS cannot be donors. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> For eye donation, the relatives of the deceased person should inform the hospital immediately after the death of the person. The eyes need to be collected within six hours after death and both eyes of the deceased should be closed. The procedure takes 10-15 minutes. </span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> The Lions International Eye Bank is giving sight to the needy since 1984 and has collected 1,421 eyes.
For eye donation, contact: 9740556666 / 22121253 / 22237628 or e-mail: Lionseye@blr.vsnl.net.in. </span>
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</span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">It was a very nice, comfortable, fun-filled social gathering. Learnt a lot from this event!</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Presented "Gift Your Sight" initiative in one of the day-1 sessions. Pretty good response.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">The photos of this event can be found @ </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=barcampbangalore2"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Flickr</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">! (You can find me in some of the photos! :O)</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And the PPT I presented is here @ <a href="http://slideshare.net/ks_deep/gift-your-sight-12975/1">Slideshare</a></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Any comments/inputs/suggestions, welcome @ <strong>giftyoursight [at] gmail [dot] com</strong></span></span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1164254047852356912006-11-23T09:23:00.000+05:302006-11-23T09:24:07.863+05:30Unconferencing in BarCamp!<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">On Dec 2nd and 3rd, BarCamp is once again visiting Bengalooru (</span><a href="http://barcampbangalore.org/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://barcampbangalore.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">), venue for which is ThoughtWorks - DD, Airport Road.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">I am planning to present this "Gift Your Sight" Initiative </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">and hope to bring awareness and spread the word for the need of this noble cause!</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1145871501289212092006-04-24T15:04:00.000+05:302006-04-24T15:08:21.300+05:30ORKUT Community!<span style="font-family:verdana;">I have created an online community on Eye Donation called '</span><a href="http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=11790024"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gift Your Sight</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">' in ORKUT.</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana;">Please do join this community thereby supporting this noble cause and spreading the message of the requirement of eye donation...</span>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1145509859052071512006-04-20T10:19:00.000+05:302006-04-20T11:41:15.956+05:30Pledging Form and Info material<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight/pledging/form_kannada.pdf"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Form - Kannada</span></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">(PDF)</span></span>
<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight/pledging/info_kannada.pdf">Info - Kannada</a> <span style="font-size:78%;">(PDF)</span></span>
<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight/pledging/form_english.pdf"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Form - English</span></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">(PDF)</span>
<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight/pledging/info_english.pdf"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Info - English</span></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;">(PDF)</span>
<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">The above info and forms are from<strong> Lions International Eye Bank, Bangalore</strong>. The filled forms can be submitted to the Eye bank and as an acknowledgement, Donor card will be issued. This card will be having the contact details of the eye bank and your unique Donor number, for any future correspondence.</span>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1144915471568340172006-04-13T13:33:00.000+05:302006-04-13T13:34:31.583+05:30Dr.Rajkumar's eyes transplanted to TWO visually-challenged individuals...<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Further to Late Dr.Rajkumar's eye donation, his eyes has been transplanted to TWO visually-challenged individuals and hopefully these two blessed individuals will be able to se this beautiful world thru the great man's eyes...(This news is according to the latest reports from a TV Channel)</span></div><div align="justify">
<span style="font-family:verdana;">Long live his memories...Long live his eyes...</span></div><div align="justify">
<span style="font-family:verdana;">I truly wish and pray god that this move by the great man, our 'anna', will be an inspiration and a stong message to all the people, across Karnataka and across the globe, to come forward to donate the eyes!</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1144862176640927552006-04-12T22:44:00.000+05:302006-04-12T22:46:16.663+05:30Dr. Rajkumar donates his eyes...<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Even though it's very sad that our Dr. Raj passed away, it is great to hear this news about eye donation.
Pass this message to all your known folks so that Dr. Raj can be a real example for supporting this noble cause and thereby showing way to lot of other people and giving inspiration to come forward to donate the eyes!!
Let his soul RIP.
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Eyes donated to 'eye bank'
(Source: Deccan Herald, Bangalore)
As per his wish, the eyes of Kannada thespian Rajkumar, who died here today, were donated to the "Eye Bank", the actor's personal physician Dr Ramana Rao said. Dr Bhujanga Shetty of Narayana Nethralaya performed the surgery to remove the eyes soon after Rajkumar died, Rao said. It was Rajkumar's wish that his eyes be donated to the eye bank after his death, he said.
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</div></em>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1140672486016826392006-02-23T10:54:00.000+05:302006-02-23T10:58:06.030+05:30Successful conclusion of the Eye Donation and Pledging Campaign - Gift Your Sight!<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6049/809/1600/Eye%20Pledgin%20and%20Eye%20Donation%20camp%20-%20GiftYourSight.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6049/809/400/Eye%20Pledgin%20and%20Eye%20Donation%20camp%20-%20GiftYourSight.jpg" border="0" /></a>
<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">The Campaign to Create Awareness on Eye Pledging and Eye Donation, conducted in my company campus yesterday (22nd Feb 2006), was a whopping success!! There was good response by the people for this and i thank god for making my first step a success...I thank Lions International Eye Bank for coming down here on my request and conducting this 'Gift Your Sight' campaign. (The pic on the left side is the small counter setup for this campaign, in my company!)</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">
</span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Number wise, we are around 1200+ in our campus here and i got pledges totalling 275+ (from 1145hrs to 1645hrs) from the employees here.</span></div><div align="justify">
<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Going forward, i plan to take this campaign to lot more companies, thru the network of my good </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">friends and spread the message...</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1140414843885687192006-02-20T11:22:00.000+05:302006-02-20T11:24:03.900+05:30First 'Gift Your Sight' Campaign in my company!<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">On Wednesday, 22nd February 2006, i am taking the responsibility of conducting a Eye Pledging and Eye Donation Information counter, in my company campus premises, with the kind support from Lions International Eye Bank, Bangalore. This will be one-day activity (1030hrs to 1630hrs) where my fellow colleagues can come to the counter and pledge their eyes for donation, get more information on eye donation and in turn motivate their family/friends to support this noble cause.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">
</div></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">More updates about this after the campaign.</span></div><div align="justify">
<em><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Pledge and Donate Eyes :: GIFT YOUR SIGHT :: Make it your WISH!</span></strong></em></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1139810006419853202006-02-13T11:22:00.000+05:302006-02-20T11:30:07.106+05:30Eyeball in my hand and some astonishing numbers...<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">On Saturday, i visited the Lions International Eye Bank (Off JC Road) and spoke regarding the upcoming activity of setting up an 'Eye Pledge Counter' in my company premises. Post this talk, they took me to the Lab and showed me the 'Gods greatest gift' to humans....the eyes!!!!
Yes, these were the eyes that were gave vision to a person and now, ready to show this world to a blind person! Amazing right...yeah...i saw around 5 eyes kept in the refridgerator and soaked in some preservative, wating to get their new life!
They had removed the whole eye (including the White portion called Sclera) and it was kind of a thrill to see the eyes...just the eyes and the cornea. To remove the cornea (this part is the only needed for eye transplantion...to give sight to a corneally-blind person), they have an equipment that does 'Button cutting'! This name can be mapped to the button shaped cornea in the eye, the part that gives vision and shows the world to us...
Apart from this, i got some highly pathetic number...the number of corneas collected right from 1992 to 31st Dec 2005....and guess this number for a span of 13 years....its just 11872!
This is dismally low and a very pathetic figure, considering the number of deaths in Bangalore.
Also, i got to see the number of corneas collected during the month of Jan 2006...for all 31days, they had a collection of 102 only!!!! Bangalore's average death rate is 3500-4000 persons, that translates to around 8000 corneas...and out of that, only 102 eyes donated?? Too disappointing...
We need to act upon this and improve this donation numbers so that more and more can get vision and see this world. Please spread the message of eye donation and help blind to get sight.</span></div><div align="justify"></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1139465519839474032006-02-09T11:36:00.000+05:302006-02-09T11:42:49.443+05:30Procedure for pledging/donating the eyes<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">I have created a page for getting a quick look and understanding of the procedure for pledging/donating the eyes. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Please <strong><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight/eyedonationprocedure.htm">click here</a></strong> </span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">to know more and act upon it.</span></div><div align="justify">
<em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">"Light up the darkness in life. Enable blind to see this beautiful world, thru your eyes! - Pledge & Donate Your Eyes, Gift Your Sight - Make it your WISH!" </span></em></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1138705244452374912006-01-31T16:30:00.000+05:302006-01-31T16:30:44.463+05:30Good Morning Bangalore!<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Today morning, i messaged RJ Vasanthi of Radio City about the good enthu response got from some fellow Bangaloreans, in response to my initiative and the segment of Eye Donation (where i was on air, live, with Vasanthi on Monday, 1005hrs to 1040hrs) and a note of thanks for making this happening.
</div></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">After few minutes, i got a call and guess who was on the other side...yeah..it was RJ Vasanthi again!!! She told that she will put me ON AIR for 2 mins so that i can offer my thanks to Bangalore and also reiterate the cause for which i have started my initiative and the contact details for the same (</span><a href="mailto:giftyoursight@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">giftyoursight@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">)
</div></span><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I went on air, wished and thanked all and urged more and more Bangaloreans to get aware of this noble cause and spread the message...
<em>"Light up the darkness in life! Enable blind to see this beautiful world thru your Eyes"Pledge & Donate Your Eyes, Gift your Sight :: Make it your WISH! </em></span></span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1138606030542075512006-01-30T12:55:00.000+05:302006-01-30T16:54:00.630+05:30LIVE, ON AIR, on Radio City 91FM Bangalore<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Today Morning i was ON AIR LIVE, in a segment called 'Bangalore Inspires', speaking about my Eye Donation initiative to the always enthu-filled RJ Vasanthi!! It is a great feeling to go on air and express your ideas/views to the people of Bangalore...And u know, i got a good response instantly with lots of SMS flooding, for some queries / for support of this cause!
The office of Radio City is pretty small and even small is the Recording room, from where the music is pumped out to the City 24/7!! Vasanthi made me feel very comfortable with the before-hand discussions about the topics that would come on air...so that you will feel at ease while answering them ON AIR! While coming out, at 1100hrs, i met RJ Cindu, who hosts the segment next to RJ Vasanthi's 'Good Morning Bangalore'! RJ Feona was on leave today and RJ Darius and RJ Sunaina Lal were not in the office at that time (i mean they usually come in the late noon for their evening show!)
Its awesome and i truly hope and just hope that the Eye Donation awareness increases among all Bangaloreans...:)
<em>"Light up the darkness in life! Enable blind to see this beautiful world thru your Eyes"Pledge & Donate Your Eyes, Gift your Sight :: Make it your WISH!
</em></span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1136693963388472762006-01-08T09:48:00.000+05:302006-01-31T16:33:00.093+05:30Member of EBAI<p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Last week I had applied for the membership of the Eye Bank Association of India (EBAI), which is present in Hyderabad and is the parent of all Eye Banks across India. They along with many institutes like LV Prasad Eye Institute and ORBIS International do a lot of programs on this eye donation. Also, EBAI were the people behind the eye donation campaigns by Mr. Amitabh Bhachan, Ms. Aishwarya Rai.
Today, I received the membership card of this prestigious institute (Membership No. IND-A-1568) and I seriously hope to make use of it, in this year and make a difference to this society.</span></p>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1136527627314299362006-01-06T11:09:00.000+05:302006-01-18T14:21:06.660+05:30Eye donations received - Lions Eye Bank, Bangalore<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Eye donations received </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 06-Jan-2006</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Lions International Eye Bank has received eyes from 986 donors, which have been used for corneal grafting. As many as 3,469 men and women have pledged their eyes to the bank. (This is for the whole year 2005)</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Contact 22235005, 22121253 or 22121255 for more information. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">==============</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">My view on this:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Is this number enough? Definitely not! </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Do we have only 986 deaths in Bangalore, in one whole year, considering the population of Bangalore as 7Million?? Definitely NO...There will be, for sure, many deaths due to natural death or due to Accidents or due to some other cause. According to Bangalore Traffic Police information, in 2005, 831 persons were killed in 791 fatal accidents and 6,031 injured in 6,785 accidents (non fatal). Here, see the number of deaths due to accident...its 831 and this figure is almost competing with the number of donors! </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Its definitely time to increase the donor number and this can be acheived thru YOU. YOU should be aware of the eye donation and spread this awareness to all your known friends/family...PLEDGE YOUR EYES NOW and DONATE the eyes of the deceased!</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></em> </div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">"Light up the darkness in life! Enable blind to see this beautiful world thru your Eyes"</span></em></div><div align="justify"><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Pledge & Donate Your Eyes, Gift your Sight :: Make it your WISH!</span></em></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1136280196916600432006-01-03T14:48:00.000+05:302006-01-18T14:19:57.146+05:30New Webspace about Eye Donation<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">In my attempt to create a webspace for this Eye Donation initiative, i have created a very simple and plain webspace that contains information mentioned here, in this blog.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">The URL of this new webspace is: </span><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.freewebs.com/giftyoursight</span></a></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">[The only difference one can find is that, in this blog one has to scroll from bottom to read the information that i want to deliver where as in my new webspace, one can click the hyperlink provided on the Left hand side of the page to know the required information]</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Request to make use of either of these to get the information about Eye Donation. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Act upon and Spread the message...</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">ARISE, AWAKE!</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1136173952848387922006-01-02T09:09:00.000+05:302006-01-18T14:19:08.310+05:30Happy, Prosperous and Colorful New Year 2006!<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Wish you and your folks a very Happy, Prosperous and Colorful New Year 2006!
Hope you all come forward to try to eliminate the blindness in our country by PLEDGING your eyes / MOTIVATING your family and friends to PLEDGE the eyes and then donate it when the death happens / DONATING the eyes of the deceased in your community! Make it an important item in your Wish list, Act upon it and spread the message...
"<em>Light up the darkness in life. Enable blind to see this beautiful world, thru your eyes!</em>" - Pledge & Donate your eyes, Gift your Sight :: Make it your WISH!</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1135158786855747222005-12-21T15:14:00.000+05:302006-01-18T14:18:14.646+05:304 digit Telephone number to reach Eye Bank<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">I recently found out that there is a 4 digit Telephone number to reach the Eye Banks across Bangalore. I am not sure how effective or how the working procedure of this number is, but still, please note it down for quick access.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The number is </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>1053</strong></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">As per the small information i got, dialing this number will connect to a centralized eye bank desk, where they will ask the area of your residence (the place where the dead body is kept) and then divert your call / assist you in reaching the eye bank that is nearest to your residence so that the doctors belonging to that eye bank can act quickly.</span></div>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1134978499365776482005-12-19T12:56:00.000+05:302006-02-01T10:41:46.616+05:30Contact numbers of some Eye Centers in Bangalore<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Please find some useful contact numbers of some eye banks in Bangalore (STD code: 080). The source of this is from the BSNL website (<a href="http://www.bangaloretelecom.com">http://www.bangaloretelecom.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">) Please utilize these numbers so as to make a healthy contribution to the soceity.
</div></span><ol><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">LIONS INTERNATIONAL EYE BANK/HOSPITAL, Lions Eye Hospital Road (Off J.C. Road), Bangalore - 560 002. Ph # <strong>2223 5005 / 2212 1255</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">NETRA JYOTHI INTERNATIONAL EYE BANK, 56/2, Hs Rd, Bangalore - 560 002. Ph # <strong>2224 3974 / 2224 3974</strong> </span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">PRABHA EYE CLINIC & RESEARCH CENTRE 504, Cross 40, Block 8, Jayanagar, Bangalore - 560 070. Ph # <strong>2663 7041 / 2634 4141 / 2691 0731</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">NARAYAN EYE FOUNDATION P LTD 121/c, Chord Rd, Block 1r, Rajajinagar, Bangalore - 560010. Ph # <strong>2357 6855 / 2357 2633 / 2290 2927 / 2347 9366 / 2357 7355 / 2337 0122 / 2357 7776 / 2357 8530</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">BG WEST LIONS EYE HOSPITAL 56/2, Eye Hosp Rd, Jc Road, Bangalore - 560002. Ph # <strong>2212 1253 / 2597 0657 / 2212 1255</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">DR AGARWAL'S EYE HOSPITAL LTD 15, Eagle St Tn, Richmond Town, Bangalore - 560025. Ph # <strong>2212 6732 / 2222 1242 / 2229 3040 / 2229 8175 / 2229 8215 / 2224 0200</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">NETHRADHAMA SUPER SPECIALITY EYE HOSPITAL 256/14, Nethradhama, Kp Rd, Block 7, Jayanagar, 560082. Ph # <strong>2663 4202 / 2663 3770</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">HAWKEYE INSTITUTE FOR BETTER VISION 312/17, Cross 27, Main 10, Block 3, Jayanagar, Bangalore - 560011. Ph # <strong>2655 7223</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">SURANA PROJECT DRISHTI EYE INSTITUTE 2, Sirur Park Rd, Seshadripuram, Bangalore - 560020. Ph # <strong>2334 7042 / 2334 7027</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">BHAGWAN MAHAVEER JAIN NETRALAYA 3, Rly Platform Rd, Bangalore - 560020. Ph # <strong>2356 5384</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">VITTALA INTERNATIONAL INST OF OPTHALMOGY, Hosakerehalli, Cross 2, Main 2, Stage 3, Block 7, Banashankari, Bangalore - 560085. Ph # <strong>2672 2213 / 2672 2214 / 2672 2215 / 2672 2219</strong></span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">NETRA JYOTHI MOBILE OPTHALMIC HOSPITAL. Ph # <strong>2223 2562</strong></span></div></li></ol>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1134975877285992162005-12-19T12:22:00.000+05:302006-01-31T16:58:41.120+05:30MYTHS associated with Eye donation, in India<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Here, you can get to know some MYTHS associated with Eye donation, in India, that may be preventing many people from donating their eyes...</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><strong>Some people think that if they donate their eyes, it will leave holes in the place where their eyes existed.</strong></em>
<strong>Wrong</strong>. Only the Cornea portion of the eye is removed and hence the appearance of the face of the deceased remains the same.
<em><strong>Some other people are of the opinion that if they donate their eyes in this life, they shall be born blind in the next life.</strong></em>
<strong>Wrong</strong>. There is no written rule about this and nobody has experienced this! Eye donation is truly a good deed and a good deed always begets good. All religions and their institutions support eye donation and consider it as one of the best donation a person can make.</span></span><a name="_Contact_list_of_Eye Banks"></a>
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<em><strong>Some people hesitate to pledge their eyes for donation worrying about how their relatives will react. </strong></em>
</span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Such people should keep in mind that a little resistance should not hinder the good deed that one is performing. In fact, they should try to motivate their relatives and friends for donating the eyes, by describing the good effects of this donation movement.</span></div><p align="justify"><strong><em><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Person with eye problem like Cataract or Glaucoma cannot donate their eyes. Also, the person is very old and hence cannot donate his/her eyes. </span></em></strong></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Wrong</strong>. A Person who HAS Cataract or Glaucoma CANNOT donate their eyes, But a person OPERATED for Cataract or Glaucoma can BE considered for eye donation. Also, Age will not come into picture while donating the eyes. As long as the person or his/her family/friends have a good mindset of doing some good to blind, can donate their eyes. </span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>I was reading an article in the Newsletter of EBAI where i found that the eyes of an 105 year old lady of Mysore district was donated (in 2002) and now, her eyes is used by two blind persons to see this beautiful world! How amazing it could be...</strong></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Hopefully, in this 21st century, people will not yield to these myths and hence come out and volunteer themselves for donating their eyes, to make this world a 'blind-free' world!!</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">ARISE, AWAKE!!</span></p>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19988029.post-1134974208459204622005-12-19T11:44:00.000+05:302006-01-18T14:12:37.036+05:30FACTS of Eye Donation, in India<div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">In this write-up, one can come across the stunning FACTS of eye donation, particularly in our country, India.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><ol><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">There are 12 million+ blind people in India, out of which about 4 million+ are corneally blind. There is a huge backlog of the number of corneal blind people waiting to get their sight.</span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">As of today, Eye collection figures stand at around 20000+ eyes per year, from around 200+ eye banks across India. This number itself is not sufficient for the freshly added corneal blind.</span></div></li><li><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">One startling fact of this is we still import eyes from Sri Lanka, which is 1/4th or even less size than India. Sri Lanka, besides catering to its own requirement, sends the eyeballs to several other countries. Over the last quarter of the century, it has flown over 20000+ eyeballs to 135 centres in the various countries of the world. </span></div></li></ol><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Looking at the above facts, dont you think that we should make a difference? If yes, please go and pledge yourself for eye donation or if their is a death in your family / friends circle, motivate the people to donate the eyes of the deceased so that a blind person can see this world thru the donated eyes!</span></p><p align="justify"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">A well worked stategy to increase Eye Donation awareness called HCRP</span></strong></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Hospital Corneal Retrieval Program (HCRP) is a proactive program initiated in some hospitals across the country. In this programme, a specially trained social worker, called Eye Donation Counselor (EDC) [or Grief Counselor] is positioned at a hospital round the clock at the ICUs, Trauma units, Nephrology centers and so on, to build up rapport with the attendants, staffs and doctors. When the death occurs, after the bereaved family has reconciled itself to the tragic reality, the EDC makes a sensitive request for the donation of the eyes.
It has been found out by the EBAI (Eye Bank Association of India) that the success rate is good and has been effective.</span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><em>(Any Myths associated with Eye donation that is preventing people from donating?...Find it out in my next write-up)</em></span></p>Deepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12627179144779989490noreply@blogger.com0