KGMU UP Community Eye Bank in Lucknow has, in the short span of 3 years already supplied more than 1750 corneas for sight restoring surgeries in Uttar Pradesh. In the quest towards elimination of corneal blindness they have also created a center of excellence for eye bank training, which started operations last year and has already trained 17 eye bank personnel. Further on this endeavor, they have also started training workshops for eye banks which are unable to attend the full time training. Mr Yogendra Rathore of Gomabai Netralaya has attended this workshop at Lucknow UP, in which he was trained in  standard approaches for donor physical & ocular assessment, recovery work site preparation, donor preparation, aseptic technique and surgical technique of In-situ procedure. 

Gomabai Netralaya participated in webinar conducted under Knowledge Hub activity, VISION 2020 INDIA in association with CyberSight, Orbis and LV Prasad Eye Institute, on ‘Inventory Management’. Speaker - Dr Vadlamuni Ramamurthy aim was to manage inventory with less volume along with high productivity leading to effective management.

The National Conference on Cornea and Eyebanking features scientific sessions that are designed to interest the two important groups attending the conference Eye Bankers & Ophthalmologist. The Eye Banking session has helped us in all dimensions updates in eye banking, quality in eye banking and the way forward and the Cornea session will consist of tips to manage various corneal diseases & also simple corneal surgeries that can be done by all. 

GBN Participates in every FY in VISION 2020 INDIA which had recently organized the series of four training programs in East, South, West and Central regions of India. Out of which Mr Vinod Rathore (Optometrist- Badisadri VC) participated in "Standardising Primary Eye Care Services".