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Jammu province to wait more for crucial eye-bank facility at GMC Building completed, no funds for instruments, infrastructure 12/3/2014 11:39:53 PM Nitesh Sangral Early Times Report Jammu, Dec 3: The Jammuities especially the visually impaired population of province would have to wait more for crucial eye-bank facility as even after completion of building construction, funds for infrastructure and required instruments is yet to be received by Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H). Official sources in the GMC&H informed Early Times that earlier, hospital had an Eye Bank facility, which had been offering various services to visually impaired people but due to casual approach of hospital administration same became dysfunctional. "Some operations of cornea-transplantation were also conducted at GMC, but due to lack of sufficient legal framework and lack of some infrastructure back-up, this bank became dysfunctional," they recalled and adding but the state government took no steps whatsoever to re-start the Eye Bank at GMC, Jammu on public demand. "Since there is no Eye Bank in the GMC Jammu, so the voluntary offer of eyes find no place where they can undertake this noble service of giving sight to the sightless," wishing anonymity, a doctor said, adding, "any person desiring to make declaration for donating his/her eyes after death for anybody cannot do so as the eyes of dead person have to be taken out within six to eight hours only". Sources maintained that, in 2012, the state government had mooted a proposal to establish a Regional Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO) in Srinagar and two eye-banks one each in GMCs of the state to comply with statutory obligation under the Jammu and Kashmir Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1997. When contacted, Principal GMC hospital Dr Ghanshyam Dev Gupta said, "The building of Eye-Bank is almost completed and now we are waiting for sanctioning of funds by the state government for purchase of required infrastructure", adding that the Eye-Bank facility will start in four months.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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