An estimated 35 million people are either already or going blind in the developing world. Most of these can be cured with proper intervention. As many as 3 million of them can have useful vision back following a corneal transplant, and more than half of these patients (sixty percent) are children under the age of twelve years.

• People of all ages and gender can donate their cornea.

• Use of spectacles for short sightedness, long sightedness or astigmatism or even those operated for cataract is also not a contraindication.

• Patients who have diabetes, those suffering from hypertension, asthma patients and those without communicable diseases can also donate eyes.