Date:13/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/13/stories/2008051351550300.htm

Tamil Nadu - Coimbatore

Electricity board engineers pledge eyes

COIMBATORE: Four woman engineers from the

Tamil Nadu Electricity Board have pledged

their eyes with the eye bank at Lotus Eye Care Hospital in the city.

They have given an undertaking that their corneas can be harvest when they die and can be given to those who are in need of eye transplantation.

Chairman and Medical Director of the hospital Selva K. Sundaramurthy pointed out in a press release on Thursday that every pair of donated

eyes gave vision to two persons. An eye each

was given to every recipient.