ashok mahindru

Mr Ashok Mahindru, Chairman and Managing Director, Advance Group of Companies, said ''Corneal blindness a  huge human problem existing throughout the country. We are on a mission to eradicate curable blindness from the country.''
Ashok Mahindru says, "India is home to world's largest blind population. Around 1, 20, 00, 000 people are suffering from some kind of eye problem. 80 % of them are suffering from cataract or refractive errors which are curable through a normal medical process." "Remaining 2.1 million people are suffering from acute corneal blindness that can only be eradicated through transplantation of corneas from eye donation, which must be performed with in about 6 hours of death."