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Sabitri Lamichhane (32) had a severe eye infection, which worsened after she tried to heal it herself. Being at a high risk of loosing her eye, she was chosen by the Eye Bank team among dozens of potential recipients from a waiting list to undergo replacement of her cornea.
Since 1995 Bhola KC and Sankha Narayan Twayan have worked at the Eye Bank in Tilganga Institue of Ofhthalmology in Kathmandu, running a program for eye donation that returns sight to the blind. This eye donation program is still controversial in Nepals’ society even though it has been supported by politicians and celebrities who support the program by donating their own eyes upon death. Religion and culture of the society can often be in the way of the procedures performed during an eye donation. However, the number of donors and successful surgeries is rising slightly every year. It’s a question of awareness by educating the people to bringing more light on eye donation for the Nepalese, as they are the ones who benefit from the program the most.

Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
http://www.tilganga.org/

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Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
http://www.tilganga.org/

Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
http://www.tilganga.org/

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