Strong punishment is specified for anyone removing organs without consent or using them for any purpose other than therapeutic purposes or for buying and selling organs. All organs to be donated and distributed without charge. In foreign countries like the USA, where organ transplantation and eye banking has been long established, legislation demands a special role in organ collection for hospitals as part of the Required Request Law . The person initiating the request shall be an organ procurement organization representative or a designated requestor. The first operation eye bank is said to have been started up at the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Chennai fifty years ago.
Eye banks are institutions that collect test store and distribute corneal tissue.
It s mission is to boost availability of high quality corneal tissue for eradicating corneal blindness. It handles national public awareness campaigns and works for improving eye banking standards to bring them closer to world levels. Eye banks receive calls from relatives of deceased eye donors. and send out doctors for eye removal within six hours of death. The target is a collection between 1,00,000 - 2,00,000 corneas a year.