The first eye bank was opened in 1944. The idea for the eye bank came from Dr. Paton. Dr. Paton had a private practice in New York city where he began to perform cornea transplant with tissues that he obtained privately. One of the sources was from prisoners on the death row. Later in 1944, Dr. Paton and a small group of doctors laid the groundwork of the Eye-bank for Sight Restoration.
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