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.
