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- The All India Body Organ Donation group hosted an eye donation awareness event at a Vizianagaram hospital.
- Organizers noted that many potential donors are deterred by superstitions about blindness.
- Medical practitioners were encouraged to facilitate pledges from families to improve future cornea availability.
- Increased awareness is intended to assist visually challenged individuals in the state.
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- Increased advocacy efforts by NGO representatives to secure eye donation pledges.
- Future cornea collection rates in Vizianagaram district.
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Shingam Shivaji
State general secretary
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“corneas collected within five hours of death can be transplanted to needy people to restore vision.”
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…zonal president Jangam Joshi and Vizianagaram district president Gedda Chiranjeevi organised an awareness programme in a private eye hospital in Vizianagaram on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shivaji said that corneas collected within five hours of death can be transplanted to needy people to restore vision. He said that many people were not coming forward for eye donation of deceased persons due to superstition and fear of blindness in the next life. He urged RMPs and NGO representatives to raise awareness and get…
“many people were not coming forward for eye donation of deceased persons due to superstition and fear of blindness in the next life.”
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…in a private eye hospital in Vizianagaram on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shivaji said that corneas collected within five hours of death can be transplanted to needy people to restore vision. He said that many people were not coming forward for eye donation of deceased persons due to superstition and fear of blindness in the next life. He urged RMPs and NGO representatives to raise awareness and get eye-donation pledges from all families so it would be easier to collect corneas from deceased persons in the future. Published - September 23, 2026 08:07…
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