Why?

Corneal opacification is a principal cause of blindness in Ghana contributing 11.2% of the
national estimate. Corneal transplant surgery is well known to offer restoration of sight to
people blind from corneal opacities.
The country has trained surgeons who are ready to offer
their services, but the country lacks the law on organ/tissue donations, leading to the current
state of no eye bank in Ghana for successful corneal transplants.
The cornea working group of the Ophthalmological Society of Ghana (OSG) with the support of hcpcureblindness sightLife international has been working assiduously for the past one year to get the law for organ and tissue donation passed by the government to enable the establishment of a
functioning eye bank in Ghana.

Objectives

Objectives

> To Create awareness about eye donation and corneal transplants.
> To evolve and implement uniform medical and operational standards and practices which conform to international standards.
> To establish a functioning world-class eye bank for Ghana


So Much Need

Needlessly blind because of corneal pathology

The cornea is the clear tissue covering the front of the eye. If the cornea becomes cloudy from disease, injury, infection or poor nutrition vision is dramatically reduced or lost.” Corneal blindness can be treated by replacing the damaged cornea by a healthy donated human cornea. The human cornea can be produced through Eye Donation only. Corneal blindness affects mainly children and young adults who have a long life ahead of them.” Though we have trained, highly qualified surgeons and hospital facilities to do the transplant we do not have tissues to do the surgery. Approximately 24,000 of the blind population of our country are waiting for corneal transplantation One eye donation can give sight to two corneal blind persons. Eye donation Eye donation means donating the eyes of a person after death for transplantation with the family consent.

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