Eye Donation

EYE DONATION- A NOBLE ACT, WITH AN ADDED indebtedness S BALACHANDRAN, CGM, SBT I am vertical watching the 200th episode of the Surya TVs popular programme believe or No Deal featuring painting star Mukhesh with Sri Kocho manipulationph, promoter and CEO of V-Guard theme and step up. Father Chirammel. It gather inms more(prenominal) than a concidence that when I sat down to pen my thoughts on Organ donation, modifiedly Eye-donation, this episode is play doing on my Television set.More than his entrepreneurial aptitude and management acumen Sri Kochouseph has been a spirit for whom I take in immense curiosity on account of his rare humanitarian act a few years back when he giftd a kidney for a needy patient and thus gave a new meaning and dimension to the practically sullied and murky field of organ donation. Rev Father Chirammel was the person who prompted Sri Kochouseph to do this majestic act. I am sure, the act of Sri Kochouseph would have sent out a meaning t hat one can be a sponsor of an organ without some(prenominal) devotion of ones own wellness and as a pure act of philanthropy.I am sure more and more people , healthy people, would come forward-moving to be donors without any monetary consideration. This reminds me of the self-governing act of compassion shown by the doctor- compeer fromTrichy a few years back. Their altogether son, was fatally involved in a labour accident on the Chennai highway. The parents rushed to the situation on hearing the news, only to see their only child, a son who they thiught would handle their noble profession, was in an almost decisive state, with all symptoms ofan impending wizardry wipeout.The couple were flooded with phone calls from friends who offered the best of preaching if the boy could be brought to Chennai. Fully equipped ambulance was ready to carry out the job. The couple with prayers on their lips and dwindling hope in their hearts, accompanied the injured son in the vehicle , on its one hour journey. hardly the boy couldnot complete the journey and his brain switched off enroute. That was a moment when any parent would stop behaving rationally or with balance.Yet it was the mother who held her mind and suggested to her husband that they charge with the bole to the nea loosening best hospital, so that all the vital organs of the body could be salvaged and donated to needy persons. The husband did the rest by phoning up his friends anout their decision and requesting them to go arrangements for the extraction of the vital organs from their sons body and arranging to resolve needy recepients .Cutting the long story short, instantly, this doctor-parents stop with the satisfaction of their son still bread and butter through the four lives whom he salve in his death. The celstial level of their magnanimity is raiment to be lauded in golden words. It is special persons like Sri Kochouseph and the doctors who inspire me. Of the ever change magnitude throng of persons needing oirgan transplants, it is the persons with Corneal blindness, who toip the list.I rememebr having read that in India there are over 5 milion persons with this type of blindness, which can be elderly if they can get suitable donors, in time. The easiest part of eye donation is that the donor can pledge to donate his eyeball and the actual donation needs to be done only on the death of the donor. Having been a compulsive, voluntary furrow donor ever since I reached the age of 19, I was much pained, when, in 2002 I was certified that I could no longer donate blood since I was hypertensive.I had to cry a halt to my unbroken saga of 62 blood donations for 31 years. It was then that I resolved to donate my eyes on my death. The only prayer I have today is that my eyes should be worthy of use at that time. This adds a major responsibility on me to keep my self effective from ailments that would affect the usability of my eyes. If my daily prayers include a wish to protect me from debilitating ailments, it is more to protect my eyes for whoever the recepient could be.