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眼睛銀行 Eye Bank

自1995年以來(lái)，博拉和桑查在尼泊爾一所醫(yī)院工作，致力于用捐贈(zèng)的角膜幫助盲人重見光明。這項(xiàng)眼角膜捐助計(jì)劃在尼泊爾當(dāng)?shù)剡€備受爭(zhēng)議，盡管當(dāng)?shù)卣秃蜕鐣?huì)名流都很支持這一計(jì)劃并承諾死后也將捐獻(xiàn)各自的眼角膜。當(dāng)?shù)刈诮毯蜕鐣?huì)文化阻礙著這一計(jì)劃的進(jìn)行。可是，每年捐贈(zèng)人和成功手術(shù)的數(shù)量還是在輕微的上升中。如何教育當(dāng)?shù)乩习傩找庾R(shí)到這一計(jì)劃可以給更多人帶來(lái)光明是當(dāng)務(wù)之急，畢竟當(dāng)?shù)乩习傩詹攀沁@一計(jì)劃的最大受益者。

2010年7月25日中午12點(diǎn)10分，“眼睛銀行”經(jīng)理桑查在火葬場(chǎng)實(shí)施角膜摘除手術(shù)。捐獻(xiàn)者是前幾天自殺身亡的7歲小女孩，她的父親決定捐獻(xiàn)她的眼角膜，希望至少能讓她還看見這個(gè)世界。小女孩的家人和朋友一直圍在桑查的身邊，看著他完成整場(chǎng)手術(shù)。

7/25/2010 12:10 PM：Sankha Narayan Twyana, the Tilganga Eye Bank manager, performs a cornea extraction at the Pashupatinath cremation site in Kathmandu, where dead bodies are brought to be cremated along the sacred Bagmati river. This corpse is of a 7year old girl who committed suicide the previous day. Her father decided to donate her eyes in the hope "to at least keep her sight alive." Family and friends gather around Twyana as he completes the procedure.