GPHC hopes to establish ‘eye bank’ after organ transplant legislation is passed
The Ophthalmology department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), headed by Dr. Shailendra Sugrim, will be seeking to establish an “eye bank” where it can store human tissues needed for eye surgeries, once the organ transplant legislation is passed.
In April, this year, the GPHC restarted corneal transplants after a two-year hiatus. A corneal transplant is a surgery that involves replacing the clear tissue at the front of the eye with similar tissue from someone else. This is usually done when that clear tissue, known as the cornea of the eye, becomes infected.