1-REVIEW:Countries make Push to increase Eye donors

1-Countries make Push to increase Eye donors
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/health/15corn.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Newspaper: The New York Times
By BINA VENKATARAMAN
Published: July 15, 2008

Eye donation in third world countries especially those from orient such as Syria and China causes a big problem because there are thousand people waiting for a cornea transplant and simultaneously there are not many cornea suppliers. Donation of the visual organs and their respective transplant is a process that must be promoted to save people’s lifestyles by giving them a chance to have the opportunity to observe what is around. That is the case in many countries that try to put eye donation as a question of mentality avoiding dogmatisms that may occasionally turn up because of religion or customs.

Since a cornea must be removed from the body within hours of death, many cultures reject the idea of organ transplants as something impure such as the case of Muslims and other religions. However, there are cases that some people defy their communities and have the courage to undergo a surgery. What’s more “their hope overcomes cultural norms and they contribute to the growth of national eye banks”. By neglecting rules of their community many people saved their lives can not be seen as anything else as something significant as both a personal and communal experience prioritizing life rather than religious rules.

The need of these eye banks is simply because there is a shortage of corneas coming from exporters such as the US. This situation which eye donors are fewer allows only wealthy people to get an operation whereas the rest is kept aside because they can not afford the costs of the surgery and the organ itself. This unfair situation is also another cause why individuals from these communities are becoming adherent to the idea of nation anal eye banks. Some countries such as are also trying to get deep into the field of eye surgery and it invests money on other types of Treatments or new forms to deal with a surgery. An endoliethelial kenotoplasty is a new surgical procedure that allows selective replacement of cornea cells. Although it far more complicated, this new health advance in medicine allows the professional to perform the surgery but just occupying cornea cells and not the whole organ.

Although many ups and downs eye donation is constantly exposed to, oriental countries try to fight against injustice by giving the poor the opportunity to have access to eye banks. Yet this not always happens.