Actor Jayaram on Sunday pledged to donate his eyes at an eye donation awareness rally held at Eliot’s Beach here as part of National Eye Donation Fortnight celebrations.
Addressing students and rotarians at the event organised by the Rajan Eye Care Hospital (RECH), Rotary Rajan Eye Bank and Rotary Club of Madras T. Nagar under the aegis of the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association (TNOA), he said eye donation was very necessary since every year lakhs of persons were born in the country with corneal blindness. “In fact, it should be made compulsory,” he added.
Chairman and Medical Director, RECH, Mohan Rajan, said every year, over 1.2 million babies were born with corneal blindness, and they could be cured with corneal transplants. There are six eye banks in the city, and all of them are witnessing increased transplants due to rising awareness about eye donations.
