Lions Club proposes to open eye bank in Goa

Panaji, July 9 (UNI) The Lions Club International has proposed to open an eye bank in Goa soon.

Disclosing this to mediapersons here today, the district governor in charge of Goa and Karnataka Ularico J Rodrigues said the club was trying to take the assistance of a private corporate hospital for the eyebank.

This was following rejection of the proposal by the state-owned Goa Medical College and Hospital(GMCH), which said it was ''commercially unviable'' compared to the smaller population of Goa, he said.

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