The Countess of Wessex is pictured chatting with an elderly patient after she opened a new 'Eye Bank' at Moorfields Eye Hospital last week.
The Countess of Wessex is pictured chatting with an elderly patient after she opened a new 'Eye Bank' at Moorfields Eye Hospital last week.The ceremony, which coincided with World Sight Day, also saw the launch of a 120m fundraising effort to restore sight to millions of people across the world with correctable visual disabilities.
Her Royal Highness is patron of the Lions, the largest global voluntary service organisation, which launched the fundraising attempt and helped to establish the Eye Bank.
The bank will collect, screen and store donor corneas for replacement surgery, enabling over 500 people nationwide to have disabilitating sight problems corrected each year.
