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Centre launched: Minister of State for HRD D. Purandeswari with Champalimaud Foundation president Leonor Beleza and G.N. Rao of LVPEI in Hyderabad on Wednesday. HYDERABAD: Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari has expressed the hope that more precise stem cell transplantation will take place to correct corneal disorders with stem cell research having attained clinical stage. Speaking after inaugurating the Champalimaud Centre at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute here on Wednesday, Ms. Purandeswari regretted that seven million out of the 45 million blind people of the world lived in India. She also said 47 per cent of eye care in the country was in private sector. Only 37 per cent of eye surgeons out of a total of 12,000 practising ophthalmologists were in government sector. Luis Filipe Castro Mendes, Portuguese Ambassador to India, said the establishment of the centre was an example of new relationship Portugal wanted to develop with India. There was a huge scope for cooperation between the two countries. Leonor Beleza, President, Antonio Champalimaud Foundation, said she was heading a private foundation of Portugal which wanted to invest in scientific research in the field of medicine. The foundation would extend an assistance of one million euros annually to the centre. G.N. Rao, Chairman, and D. Balasubramanian, Director (Research) of L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, also spoke. The centre was set in partnership with the Portuguese foundation for analysis, management and treatment of selected eye disorders. It will supplement the vision research programme of the Institute of Eye Research, Sydney, carried out from the same premises.
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