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Ranchi, Aug 28: Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank today organised a painting competition based on eye donation awareness at Ursuline Convent School under the 38th National Eye Donation Fortnight.
Girls of classes 11 and 12 of Ursuline Convent School participated in this painting competition. The winners of the painting competition will be honoured at a programme of “Blind Folded Run for Vision” to be held on September 8 at Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium, Khelgaon, Ranchi.
Eye donation awareness lectures are being delivered regularly by corneal transplant specialists from Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Dr. Nidhi Gadkar Kashyap and Dr. Pooja, at many schools, including Ursuline Convent School.
100 eye donation affidavits were filled in Ursuline Convent.
Dr. Bharti Kashyap, Medical Director, Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank said, “Run for Vision is being organized once again by Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank during the 38th National Eye Donation Fortnight. “Since 2005, Run for Vision is being organized continuously for eye donation awareness in which children and dignitaries of Ranchi run for eye donation awareness. This run gives the message of eye donation in a very sensitive way,” she added.
It may be noted that the first eye transplant of Jharkhand-Bihar was done by founder of Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank, Jharkhand, Dr. BP Kashyap and Dr. Bharti Kashyap. So far 795 eye transplants have been done by Kashyap Memorial Eye Bank. “In the last 5 years we have performed 334 eye transplants,” she added.
Dr Kashyap said that we have done 148 eye transplants since 2022 till now. “All this has been possible because of the team of doctors trained in eye transplant under the leadership of Dr. Nidhi Gadkar Kashyap of Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital,” she added.
Children participating in the painting competition organized on eye donation awareness at Ursuline school
