Hello all It is a norm that the recipient is not aware of the donner of human organ, unless it is donated by family member.
Conversely, the family of donner do not get to know to whom the eye is donnated. I wonder how such details are known to the donner. I don't know if there is any change in rules of late. Harish. ----- Original Message ----- From: "rambabu adikesavalu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:00 PM Subject: [AI] On terror's anniversary,an unusual tale: when eye for an eye made two people see Source: IndianExpress.com On terror's anniversary, an unusual tale: when eye for an eye made two people see Thursday, April 10, 2008 Anuraag Singh Posted online: Friday, March 07, 2008 at 0047 hrs SankatMochan blast Varanasi Railway clerk donates eyes of son killed in blast-to a child and a woman VARANASI, AZAMGARH, MARCH 6: Tomorrow, it will be two years since two powerful blasts tore through the Sankatmochan temple and the railway station in Varanasi, bringing death to 18 homes. But one single act by one of the families hit by the terror strikes has given new life to two homes, one in Nizamabad in eastern UP and another in Jamalpur in Bihar. Railway inquiry-cum-reservation clerk Sushil Upadhyaya, who's still to come to terms with the death of his 20-year-old son Ritesh in the Sankatmochan blast, donated his son's eyes. That one act helped a two-year-old girl and an elderly woman - both had vision in only one eye - recover full vision. Ritesh, an amateur photographer, had gone to the temple on March 7, 2006 with professional lensman Harish Bijlani and brother Rajesh to film a marriage being held there. When the blast took place, Bijlani died instantly and Ritesh sustained multiple injuries in the head, stomach and legs. He died of internal bleeding at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) hospital 16 days later. "It was an irreparable loss, a great shock. The family had lost its most loving son. But we all decided we will make Ritesh live," Upadhyaya told The Indian Express. "Two days before he died, we were told by doctors that the chances of my son's survival were very remote. This made me think. We decided, and it was a bold decision, to donate his eyes. It would help those who can't see." After Ritesh died, his eyes went to the two-year-old daughter of a national award-winning potter from Nizamabad (Azamgarh) and an elderly woman from Jamalpur, Upadhyaya said. Nandini, the potter's daughter, had lost vision in the left eye in an accident when she was only a year old. "We still remember March 26, 2006. It was the day which ended our agony. We got a call from the BHU hospital that day. We were told to come to the Varanasi hospital the next day," recalled Nandini's father Ram Jatan Prajapati. The family reached Varanasi the same night. The next day, the cornea implant was performed by ophthalmologists OPS Maurya and Abhishek Chandra. "We were later told that Nandini was able to see with both eyes only because of a youth who died in the temple blast," Nandini's mother Pushpa said. "As far as we know, the other cornea was implanted in the eye of an elderly woman from Jamalpur. It was to go to a boy from Varanasi initially. But he he fell ill just before the surgery and the doctors decided against the implant," Ram Jatan said. "The blast plunged one family into darkness but returned light to two families. We will be forever indebted to the family of the young man who died in the blast," Pushpa said. Ophthalmologist Abhishek Chandra said "Nandini's left eye in which the cornea was implanted has a squint which now needs correction. We will perform corrective surgery on April 14." Ritesh's family believes he is still alive, seeing the world through Nandini and the woman in Bihar. But the family is still waiting for the certificate confirming the eye donation. Told about this, Dr Chandra said "if such an error has taken place, it will be rectified. Ritesh's family will be handed the certificate." ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in