Rayner Newsroom

26 November 2008 is a day police commando Venkatesh Kadam will never forget. He was badly injured in one of the terrorist attacks that rocked the city’s principal hotels and tourist attractions. He lost his sight in one eye.

But the wounded hero will prefer to remember today, when his sight was restored by one of the top eye surgeons in India and the World, Dr. Keiki R. Mehta.

2007 marks the 125th anniversary of the world-famous St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital.

To celebrate this, the hospital has launched its International Patient Relief Appeal. An icon has been created, carved out of Jerusalem stone, which is symbolic both of the Hospital’s charitable works and is a call for aid. This ‘icon’ will go on a ‘journey’ across the St John world, acting as a focal point for fundraising efforts.

The Impact Foundation of Bangladesh recently reported on the work that it has done since Rayner started to regularly supply intraocular lenses to the Foundation. The lenses are used by Bangladesh and visiting surgeons from around the world such as recent visitors, Dr Bruce Munro from Geelong, Victoria, Australia and Mr Jim Haslam, Ophthalmic Surgeon from Darlington, UK.

UK implant manufacturer, Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd announced today that it had recently donated over a thousand intraocular lenses to the Bureau for the Prevention of Blindness, a division of the South Africa National Council for the Blind.

XX ESCRS Meeting, Nice, France

Photographed (left to right) on the Rayner booth are: Alan Dickson, Director, Rayner; Andrea M. Izak MD, Instructor at the Moran Eye Center,Donald J. Munro, Managing Director, Rayner; Liliana Werner MD, Director of Research at the Moran Eye Center, Randall J Olson MD, Clinical Director at the Moran Eye Center; Prof David J. Apple MD, Director at the Moran Eye Center; Suresh K Pandey MD, Instructor at the Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

A trip to the London Eye for all the staff of Rayner Intraocular Lenses has helped Sight Savers charity to restore sight to more of the world’s poorest people.

To mark World Sight Day, on October 11 2001, Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd donated 425 lenses to the IMPACT Foundation, an international charity based in Haywards Heath. The lenses will be used by surgeons to restore sight to people in remote and impoverished areas of developing countries on this day.

Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd of Hove, East Sussex is to donate an entire year’s supply of intraocular lenses to the floating hospital Jibon Tari in Bangladesh, announced Rayner Managing Director Donald Munro, whilst on a visit to that country in early January. Five hundred of the highest quality lenses will be sent entirely free of charge in the year 2001.