Eye Donation Pledge And Awareness Campaign By PU NSS Units

Chandigarh, April 23, 2015: Panjab University (PU) NSS Unit today launched the eye donation pledge and awareness campaign at PU Campus.  On this occasion, more than 100 NSS volunteers took a pledge to donate their eyes after their demise.

The requisite forms were taken from Department of Ophthalmology, PGI Chandigarh for donation of their eyes. Dr. Gaurav Gaur from Department of Social Work and Coordinator NSS, PU Prof. Yograj motivated the NSS volunteers for the eye donation campaign. They also shed light on the various myths and superstitions related to the eye and organ donation. They further requested the volunteers to spread the message and make the eye donation awareness campaign a mass movement so that patients waiting to cornea implants can start a new life. 

Besides that Director NSS Prof. Yograj Angrish, Dr. Pawan Kumar from UILS and Sandeep Brar NSS volunteer also pledged to donate their bodies for medical research at PGIMER,Chandigarh. They acted as role models for the NSS volunteers associated with PU to initiate this noble cause.

NSS Campus Coordinator, Dr. Jatinder Grover, Dr. Harish and Jeesu Jaskanwar Singh Programme Officers NSS, PU also pledged to donate their eyes. The eye donation campaign would continue at war footing by the NSS volunteers. In the coming months the documentaries films, lectures, street plays are planned to make the campaign productive and successful. NSS volunteers will spread message through various units in colleges associated with PU. / (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)