Light in the lives of the poor through eye care
The Free Press Journal|September 23, 2024
Churchgate resident Percy Ghaswala's life-long mission has been to bring light to the people of lesser privileged people, quite literally.
Pooia Patel
Light in the lives of the poor through eye care

His NGO Ghaswala Vision Foundation, founded in 2002, has been facilitating eye care treatments, mainly for corneal blindness.

Ghaswala, while heading Asia's largest tissue processing (cornea) centre of a not-for-profit organisation, observed that even if the cornea was provided free, the patient still had to pay the surgeon and other expenses that the people could not afford. He realised that most people needed to be handheld for the entire process of sight restoration.

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