Lions Club of Pakistan has donated three more corneas to Karachi Metropolitan Corporation-run (KMC) Spencer Eye Hospital (SEH) here on Wednesday.
LCP has so far gifted 10 corneas (imported from Sri Lanka), this year. Seven such tissues have already been transplanted among blinds hailing from Balochistan, Interior Sindh and Punjab, said the KMC officials.
Metropolitan Commissioner (MC) Dr Syed Saif-ur-Rehman received the tissues from LCP's Chairman Lion Abu Bakar Kareem, and extended gratitude for his generous contribution to help restore eye sights of poor patients.
On February 15, City Mayor Waseem Akhtar inaugurated the Corneal Transplantation and Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery department at the SEH.
Experts say that corneal transplantation is a surgical procedure where a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by donated corneal tissue.
In private hospitals, the officials said corneal transplantation will cost around Rs 150,000, however the same transplantation facility will be available in SEH against Rs 50,000. SEH was once considered to be the most reputed hospitals in the Asia for eye diseases as some 70,000 patients restored their eyesight from the very health facility.