Tendulkar may urge you to donate eyes
Health department has prepared a proposal to make the Master Blaster the state eye donation ambassador
HAVING featured in a water conservation campaign for the BMC last year, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar may now be seen taking up the cause of eye donations in the state on behalf of the health department.
"We have already drafted a proposal which we will present to Tendulkar, asking him to be the ambassador for eye donations in the state.
"We have already drafted a proposal which we will present to Tendulkar, asking him to be the ambassador for eye donations in the state.
At any given time, there are 10,000 people in the state who require corneal transplants and we are getting less than 6,000 eye donations annually.
If relatives of accident victims come forward and donate the eyeballs of the deceased, the problem of paucity will be solved.
We want this message to reach every individual in Maharashtra and who better then Sachin to get the message across?" said Dr Ashok Podar, joint director, National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB).
Senior officials in the health department are, in fact, already excited about the proposal and have agreed to make monetary allocations for the campaign to get visibility through the television and print mediums."Sachin has always supported causes which are in public interest and we are sure that he will not deny our request," said a senior health official.
