Parents of a seven-day-old infant donated his eyes immediately after his death due to a respiratory problem to light up the lives of two blind children in 2007, but the child’s contribution to the country’s fight against corneal blindness has gone unsung.
Sixteen years have passed since Arjun from hill state Uttarakhand became probably the youngest organ donor, but a proposal to name an eye bank after him did not see the light of day.
There was a move a few years ago to name an eye bank in the state after Arjun but nothing came out of it, the child’s father Sandeep Chawla, who lives in Gadarpur in Udham Singh Nagar district, told PTI.
“There was a move to set up an eye bank here but some teething problems arose.
It does not fulfill the norms, the technical parameters set for having an eye bank.” :Mother of the child.