{"id":17765,"date":"2022-09-22T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gewebenetzwerk.de\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:56:00","slug":"halbzeit_giz-projekt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gewebenetzwerk.de\/en\/halbzeit_giz-projekt\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new collection centers in North India"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two new collection centers in North India<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

Half-time in the GIZ project of DGFG and Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the beginning of July, the team from Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, an eye clinic from New Delhi, came to DGFG\u2019s headquarters in Hannover for a week – an important exchange meeting of the project funded by the Society for International Cooperation (Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ) from the “Clinic Partnerships” funding program. Rakhi Nathawat (2nd<\/sup> from left), project manager for the SCEH, and Dr. Manisha Acharya (1st<\/sup> from right), ophthalmologist and medical director of the cornea bank of the SCEH, talked about the interim status, special challenges in the project and the milestones already achieved.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rakhi: As project manager here on the Indian side, it is my job to keep an eye on all the processes in this project for SCEH here in India, to identify problems at an early stage, and to solve them together as a team and with our colleagues from Germany. Half of the project period is already over. Twelve exciting, intensive and, above all, instructive months lie behind us.<\/p>\n

What are the goals of this special project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rakhi: One is the establishment of two new collection centers for cornea donation in the region around Delhi. The first collection center was scheduled to start in January, the second in June. Today, both sites are already operating very successfully. To date, we have been able to realize over 35 cornea donations. By the end of the project, we want to reach 200 donations. I am sure that we will exceed this goal. The model we developed for the SCEH together with the DGFG team works extremely well. We can very well imagine rolling it out to other sites. It will allow us to expand cornea donation throughout north India. Another goal is to develop a database system that bundles and digitizes all processes to be able to work as efficiently as possible from donation to transplant allocation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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