{"id":22661,"date":"2022-09-03T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=22661"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:05:30","slug":"agarwals-eye-hospital-chennai-organises-human-chain-to-create-public-awareness-on-eye-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=22661","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital, Chennai organises HUMAN CHAIN to create public awareness on eye donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22662\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112957-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0A<\/strong><strong>garwal\u2019s Eye Hospital, Chennai organises HUMAN CHAIN to create public awareness on eye donation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0Video Link :-<\/u><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Human Chain to create  Eye Donation Awareness organised by Dr Agarwal&#039;s Eye Hospital : FACE NEWS TV\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4HfvOnJuCvY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Eye Donation fortnight observed every year from 25<sup>th<\/sup> Aug to 8<sup>th<\/sup> Sept<\/li>\n<li>More than 200 people pledged to donate eye by signing and getting their donor cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2022: Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital, Chennai organized <\/strong>a <strong>Human chain<\/strong> to raise awareness for Eye donation as a part of National Eye donation fortnight 2022, today in Edward Elliot&#8217;s Beach, Chennai. The National Eye Donation Fortnight is observed every year from 25<sup>th<\/sup> August to 8<sup>th<\/sup> September. Dr S. Soundari, Medical Director \u2013 Dr. Agarwal&#8217;s Eye Hospital, Ms. Sudha, Director at Dr.Agarwal&#8217;s Group of Eye Hospitals, and Dr. Preethi, Senior Cornea Consultant &amp; Medical Director &#8211; Dr Agarwals Eye Bank were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22663\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220903_112923-768x489.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge participation of more than 200 members belonging to different age groups comprising College students, Doctors &amp; staff of Dr. Agarwal Eye Hospital and the general public held placards participated in the human chain which created a mass public awareness about the importance of Eye donation and generated Eye donation pledges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Dr. Preethi, Senior Cornea Consultant &amp; Medical Director &#8211; Dr Agarwals Eye Bank said<\/strong>, \u201cEven though one pair of eyes can give vision to 4 people, there is a huge gap between demand and supply of the eyes. National Eye Donation fortnight is observed at all our Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Group of Eye Hospitals, campaigning to bring the masses on a common platform to understand the importance of Eye donation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the National Program for Control of Blindness (NPCB), one-third of the world&#8217;s visually challenged population is from India accounting for 12 million individuals with visual impairment and corneal diseases are the major causes of blindness after cataracts and glaucoma. According to the National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey 2019, Corneal blindness is the major cause of blindness in patients aged less than 50 years, accounting for 37.5 % of cases and the second most important cause among patients aged more than 50 years. Majority of cases, corneal blindness can be corrected through eye donation. According to a global survey on eye banking and corneal transplantation, for every 70 corneal recipients worldwide only 1 donor cornea is available. This emphasizes that there is a huge demand for donor cornea\u201d <strong>Dr. Preethi<\/strong> <strong>added.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital, Chennai organises HUMAN CHAIN to create public awareness on eye donation \u00a0Video Link :- National Eye Donation fortnight observed every year from 25th Aug to 8th Sept More than 200 people pledged to donate eye by signing and getting their donor cards \u00a0 Chennai, 3rd September 2022: Dr. Agarwal\u2019s Eye Hospital, Chennai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31,38,11,27,34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-health","category-legal","category-new-hopes","category-news","category-technology","category-value-added-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22664,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/22664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}