Online Services of Directorate of Medical Education and Training U.P.

Step-1. Eye Banking

A. EYE BANK and institution affiliated Ophthalmic/General Hospital:

Name

Address

Government/Private/Voluntary

Teaching/Non-teaching

B. Removal of Eye Ball and Storage:

Availability of adequate trained and qualified personnel for removal of whole globe or corneal (annex detail)

Names, qualification and address of the designated staff who will be doing removal of whole globe/cornea retrieval. (annex details)

C. Availability of following as per requirement:

Whether register maintained for tissue request received from surgeon of corneal transplant centre.

Telephone arrangement available. (Dedicated Telephone Number……..)

Transport facility for collecting Eyeballs from outside:

Sets of instruments for removal of whole globe/cornea as per requirement.

Special bottles with stands for preservation of Eye balls/cornea during transit

Suitable preservation media.

Biomedical Waste Management.

Uninterrupted Power supply.

D. Manpower:

Incharge/Director (Ophthalmologist)-1

Eye Bank Technician-2

Eye Donation Counselors (EDC)-2 per attached HCRP (Hospital Cornea Retrieval Cornea Programme) Hospital, who will be posted at eye Bank.

Multi task Staff (MTS)-2

Space requirement for eye Banks (400sqft minimum)

E. Records:

Arrangement for maintaining the records

Arrangement for registration of pledges/donors and maintenance of utilization report

Computer with internet facility and Printer

F. Equipment:

Slit Lamp Biomicroscope-1

Specular Microscope for Eye Bank-1

Laminar flow (Class II)-1

Sterilization facility (In-house or outsourced)

Refrigerator with temperature monitoring for preservation of eye balls/Cornea-1

G. Laboratory Facilities:

Facility for HIV, Hepatitis B and C testing.

If no where do you avail it? Please mention Name and address of institute.

Facility for culture and sensitivity of Corneoscleral ring.

H. Laboratory Facilities:

Period of renewal 5 years after last registration. Minimum of 50 corneas to be collected in 5 years, Maintenance of eye bank standards (as per Guidelines)

Step-2. Eye Retrieval Centre

A. RETRIEVAL CENTRE-A Centre affiliated to an Eye Bank:

Name

Address

Government/Private/Voluntary

Teaching/Non-teaching

Information, Education and Communication Activities for Eye Donation

Name of Eye Bank to which ERC is affiliated

B. Removal of Eye Balls and Storage:

Manpower: Adequate trained and qualified personnel for removal of eye balls/cornea (annex detail

Incharge/Director-1

Technician-1

MTS (Multi task Staff)-1

Transport facility (or outsource)with storage medium

C. Name, qualification and address of the personnel who will be doing enucleation/removal of cornea. (annex details)

D. Availability of Following:

Telephone (Number……………)

Ambulance/vehicle or funds to pay taxi for collecting eyeballs from outside:

Sets of instruments for removal of Eye Balls/cornea

Special bottles with stands for preservation of

Eye balls/cornea during transit:

Suitable preservation media

Waste Disposal (Biomedical waste Management)

Space requirement: Designated area

E. Records:

Arrangement for maintaining the records

F. Equipment:

Sterilization facility

Refrigerator temperature control 24 hrs for preservation of Eye balls/Cornea. (power back up)-1

The retrieval centre is affiliated with an Eye bank Eye Bank is only authorized to distribute corneas.

Step-3. Corneal Transplantation Centre

A. of the Transplant Centre/hospital:

Address

Government/Private/Voluntary

Teaching/Non-teaching

IEC for Eye Donation: Yes/No

Name of the registered Eye Bank for procuring tissue:

B. Staff Details:

No. of permanent staff member with their designation.

(Note: Eye Surgeon’s Experience: 3 month post MD/MS/DNB/DO)

No. of temporary staff with their designation

Trained persons for Keratoplasty and Corneal Transplantation with their names and

qualifications: 2(one Corneal Transplant surgeon should be on the pay roll of the Institute)

C. Equipment: Slit lamp, Clinical Specular, Keratoplasty or intraocular instruments

D. OT facilities

E. Safe Storage facility

F. Records Registration and follow up

G. Any other information

Permission for Eye Bank/Corneal Transplantation Centre

Step-1. Eye Banking

Step-2. Eye Retrieval Centre

Step-3. Corneal Transplantation Centre