{"id":148228,"date":"2025-02-26T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148228"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:01:16","slug":"over-two-million-people-donate-eye-corneas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/26\/over-two-million-people-donate-eye-corneas\/","title":{"rendered":"Over two million people donate eye corneas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By Poojathmi Rivithma Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Colombo, Feb 26 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A total of 2.5 million people have started to focus on donating their eye corneas after their death, marking a significant step in supporting eye donation efforts, the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society (SLEDS) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLEDS Senior Manager, Janath Saman Matara Arachchi, told the Daily Mirror that 114 cities in 57 countries have been sending eye corneas, which help people suffering from blindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that, from the beginning until now, a total of 95,203 eye corneas have been sent overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the most eye corneas have been donated to Pakistan, followed by Egypt gaining second place in receiving eye corneas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the process within Sri Lanka&#8217;s healthcare system is providing worldwide medical services where anyone can help for better access to eye care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sri Lanka, 59,202 eye corneas have been donated for the local patients, improving the lives of many individuals suffering from loss of vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, SLEDS continues raising public awareness on the importance of eye donation, with hopes to restore vision for many more individuals in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Poojathmi Rivithma Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 26 (Daily Mirror) &#8211; A total of 2.5 million people have started to focus on donating their eye corneas after their death, marking a significant step in supporting eye donation efforts, the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society (SLEDS) said. SLEDS Senior Manager, Janath Saman Matara Arachchi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}