Sri Lanka: Eye for eye gives the world sight

Many countries around the world struggle to convince people to donate their organs after they die, but that is not the case in Sri Lanka.
 
The nation has become the world's biggest provider of corneas, possibly because of its religious traditions. 
 
Stephanie Scawen explains.

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[STFpolice1]

sri lanka's awesome.

[Chamath5B]

@TheBarnebus haaaa there are 30000 gods.Lord Buddha is superior to all after Lord Buddha Vishnu,Kali and Ganesh comes then after about 1000 other gods there comes your allah and christian god

[achinthamb]

@TheBarnebus With all due respect.. man created the God not the other way.

[wasanthah]

Humanity is our culture & soul

[nativemrv19722]

Amazing i didn't know we could do that...

[yourtreat2]

I have never found anything except child birth to be as disgusting a procedure as this.

[selfworm]

@hayden50 Such as belief in false mythology.

[ilovewathsala]

Sri Lanka is a great country with amazing culture

[breaks0]

@TwoTube2 I wouldn't read too much into it. SL historically had the best health and education systems in South Asia, actually of a first world standard. Until the war anyway. Hopefully it's starting to improve again now the conflict's over.

[Vire70]

@ThePayola123

Considering they're talking about Corneas, and thinking back to my hazy highschool biology classes, I believe Corneas don't have the chemical markers that induce an immune response, so they're a pretty safe transplant.