World’s Largest Eye Bank has Served a Nation for Three Decades

Farazdaghi, Mahmood

doi:10.18502/jovr.v15i2.6728

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“…Nevertheless, the overall tissue utilization rate ranges between 22 and 28% for voluntary donations and 50% for HCRP donations. [ 38 ] Much better utilization rates are reported in certain EBs (RIEB, NEB) of India due to the targeted and dedicated approach of the team involved in tissue processing and distribution. [ 7 21 ]…”

Section: Trends In Tissue Procurement and Utilizationmentioning

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Evolution of eye banking in India – A review

Christy,

Bhadari,

Mathews

et al. 2023

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

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Corneal blindness ranks third among the causes of blindness worldwide, after cataract and glaucoma. Corneal transplantation offers us a means to address this, and is currently the most commonly performed transplantation procedure worldwide – restoring the gift of sight to many an eye. Eye banks play a very important role in these procedures. India was quick to develop its own eye bank in 1945 soon after the launch of world’s first eye bank in 1944. The evolution over the past six decades has been tremendous, placing India on the top, with one of the largest eye-banking system in the world. As of 2023, around 740 members are registered under the Eye Bank Association of India. The highest-ever collection of 71,700 donor eyes was achieved in 2017-2018. The overall tissue utilisation rate ranged between 22 - 28 % for voluntary donations and 50% for hospital-based corneal retrieval programs. Though India has an excellent infrastructure and readiness for corneal transplantation surgery, the need of the hour is to create a strong and independent nodal system. It shall take care of the logistics and factor in technological advances – surgical and otherwise. Public awareness, a national corneal grid, and reducing the red-tape barriers, shall improve availability of grafts nationwide. This review aims to detail the evolution of eye banking in India, to provide a comprehensive understanding, and help the stakeholders focus on the road ahead to attain our targets faster.

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Section: Trends In Tissue Procurement and Utilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution of eye banking in India – A review

Christy,

Bhadari,

Mathews

et al. 2023

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

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“…The central eye bank of Iran (CEBI) is a centralized national organization located in Tehran. The CEBI is mentioned as the largest transplantable corneal supplier globally in recent studies (Farazdaghi 2020 ). The CEBI provides patients’ needs across the country (as the only legal entity) over the past 3 decades, only from a single city, Tehran, the capital, with approximately 9 million people (Kanavi et al 2007 ; Javadi et al 2020 ).…”

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A simple empirical inventory model for managing the processed corneal tissue equitably in hospitals with demand differentiation

2021

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This paper peruses one of the most challenging healthcare concerns related to human organ transplantation. In this regard, a medical system’s health-economic objectives are investigated to (1) achieve a desirable level of health equity in offering healthcare services to patients who are differentiated in terms of medical conditions, and (2) minimize total costs incurred across managing the inventory. This paper presents the first-ever operational research study to manage processed corneal tissue (PCT). Besides, hybrid demand-oriented policies have been proposed to equitably issue and assign specific inventories to demands with distinct medical urgent levels (ULs). In this regard, a practical multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MOMILP) model is proposed for a system with multiple products that can be substituted with each other according to medical priorities. A goal programming (GP) approach is utilized to find the optimum solution. The applicability of the model is validated through a real case study. Finally, several sensitivity analyses are conducted to examine the effect of critical parameters on the solutions to gain useful managerial insights. The results show that the proposed health-economic trade-off is well performed and can efficiently handle the real case.

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