Open AccessPotential for Hospital Based Corneal Retreival in Hassan District Hospital
Author(s) -
Kavitha Chikkanayakanahalli Venugopal,
Suresh Ramappa Melsakkare,
Sahana Raviraj Manipur,
Pavana Acharya,
Lakshmi B Ramamurthy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/14304.6385
Subject(s) - medicine , economic shortage , blindness , corneal transplantation , population , cornea , optometry , pediatrics , ophthalmology , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
In developing countries, corneal diseases are the second leading cause of blindness. This corneal blindness can be treated through corneal transplantation. Though the present infrastructure is strong enough to increase keratoplasty numbers at a required rate, India has largest corneal blind population in the world. So a constant supply of high quality donor corneal tissue is the key factor for reduction of prevalence of corneal blindness. Considering the magnitude of corneal blindness and shortage of donor cornea, there is a huge gap in the demand and supply.