In line with the rising need for organ donation in the state, Columbia Asia Hospitals Pvt Ltd in close collaboration with Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka for Transplantation (ZCCK) has recently organised a forum to inspire public towards organ donation.
In addition to the routine clinical work, Dr. Agarwal is involved in the Artificial Retinal Implant project, being carried out in collaboration with Texas Instruments, which aims at developing a complex artificial epiretinal device in patients with advanced retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration, which will help these patients see again.
[This article was published in the December 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The Silicon Valley of India hosted in early November an august gathering of researchers and developers of cutting edge technology at the 11th edition of Texas Instruments Developer Conference (TIDC).
Patna will soon have a super-specialty eye hospital. It will be an autonomous body and will have a separate cadre for doctors. Till its own building comes up in the phase-wise manner it will function at the existing Rajendaranagar Hospital in Patna.
In recognition of its groundbreaking work to prevent debilitating blindness and provide affordable, world-class eye care to the poor, the Aravind Eye Care System, based in Tamil Nadu, India, has won the 2008 Gates Award for Global Health. The US$ 1 million Gates Award – the world’s largest prize for international health – honors extraordinary efforts to improve health in developing countries.
Operation Eyesight Universal (OEU), a Canada based International Development organisation dedicated to eliminate avoidable blindness, has plans to spend four million dollars in India this year for sight restoration and blindness prevention activities.
There exists a non-profit charity called “Project Vision”, working in China, which aims to treat cataract sufferers in rural China. “Project Vision” aims to establish 100 “eye centers” over the next few years, staffed by qualified Chinese eye doctors who would be trained to perform cataract surgeries.
A visually impaired student has developed Brailleface, software, which converts Braille commands into Devanagari script on the computer screen.
