After a gap of more than a year, eye donations make a slow and steady start in the city, enabling corneal transplants, which was suspended owing to the pandemic. Since May, following the announcement of guidelines, Mumbai has been receiving an average of 50 eye donations monthly.

“Corneal transplant, which is an elective procedure, was stopped as the novel Coronavirus was new and we didn’t have any guidelines in place,” said Dr Kavita Rao, director, Cornea, Cataract and LASIK Centre at Aditya Jyot Hospital.