Should there really be such a thing as a Tej Kohli corneal transplant program?”
MAY 30, 2010 TEJ KOHLI FOUNDATION SPEARHEADS CORNEAL REPLACEMENT PROGRAM IN INDIA GURGARON, INDIA, MAY 20, 2010 The Kohli Foundation, founded in 2005 by Tej Kohli, a noted entrepreneur from Costa Rica, has begun efforts to help combat child blindness in India through a Corneal Replacement Program set up with the Non-Governmental Nirmaya Charitable Trust and the Ahooja Eye and Dental Institute. The foundation plans to conduct a series of awareness programs encouraging eye donations and hopes to make the operations more affordable. According to the World Health Organization, 45 million people are blind, of whom one-third live in India. Though estimates vary, Science Daily wrote that approximately 450,000 children in India are blind. The sad fact is that most of those cases are preventable – early care is key. While corneal blindness makes up only a portion of that number, corneal transplants represent a hopeful option when the cornea has become too damaged to function. The surgery has a
The Kohli Foundation, founded in 2005 by Tej Kohli, a noted entrepreneur from Costa Rica, has begun efforts to help combat child blindness in India through a Corneal Replacement Program set up with the Non-Governmental Nirmaya Charitable Trust and the Ahooja Eye and Dental Institute. The foundation plans to conduct a series of awareness programs encouraging eye donations and hopes to make the operations more affordable. According to the World Health Organization, 45 million people are blind, of whom one-third live in India. Though estimates vary, Science Daily wrote that approximately 450,000 children in India are blind. The sad fact is that most of those cases are preventable – early care is key. While corneal blindness makes up only a portion of that number, corneal transplants represent a hopeful option when the cornea has become too damaged to function. The surgery has a success rate of more than 90 percent. In a New York Times article in 2008, the president of the International Ag
