he needs lots of bell end up next to a dummy report which this wakes all as a doctor in nepal to develop a new way of treating cataracts don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at c.w. dot com i'll be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour i go i. cut. they were forced into a nameless mass. of. their bodies near jewels when. the history of the slave trade is africa's history. just shut for power and profit plummeted an entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery and i think we will truly be making

progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on d w. such. luck. why people in this part of the world can't get the surgery that you get in new york in london in the frankfurt. dr sun dooku its mission is to help the blind seen no matter how poor they are the nepali eye doctor has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has restored eyesight to over 100000 patients.

doctors who wait and his team make the rounds of naipaul's liberal areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission is to will deliver high quality sustainable i care specially for goes on to march to. baghdad. that's a really big sense of mission. 14 for. more than 3 tickets. out. i have a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable limas affectively. and he backs up that claim with thousands of cases dr drew each

run several hospitals in kathmandu and other nepali cities where patients of little means can get treatment the kicker is that only a few years after opening these hospitals are already paying for themselves. we have in chorus people who have money to pay full under people who don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients. cannot afford to be free of cost. doctors a week has the lenses required for the operation made right in his hospital he even exports them at 1st he ruffled some feathers in the industry the going price for a lens was around $200.00 u.s. dollars dr who each brought it down to $3.00. these lenses are intended for patients in a paul southern region ordinarily very few people in the area would have access to

medical care. cataracts have left glassy hardy john functionally blind in both eyes she can only distinguish light and dark and is dependent on help from her relatives. good to him i can't do anything at all i just sit around sometimes i look after my grandchildren what can i do absolutely nothing. her son r.j. is the family's sole provider i think this could be very happy that my mother were able to see again. that me. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own for me to separate and i. now along with hundreds of patients good lassie is waiting for her operation which will be free of charge.

doctor who eats motivation for treating people like a lassie was not born of idealism he came from a poor family in a tiny remote village in the himalayas in his youth it hadn't occurred to him to take up medicine until one particular decisive experience. one of my closest. person to me was my younger sister and c and i used to live on the income on 2. 101 i was going to school. to develop to a close as we had back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor says assistant to the primary minor medication sinister half sick dynamic asian. culture you know he didn't have money and access to the 2nd line up so the doctor said the best you could do is go home and. have

a little conversation with her and she said brother for you how about trust the potential. to do something in life and please do not forget you can do something in life she said you know maybe this is going to last and we're going to meet. not long after that dr sister died. while dr who it is still on his way to the south of naipaul's his team starts making preparations over the next few days they'll be operating on nearly 1000 patients the base for their mobile surgical unit this time is the being a buddhist pilgrimage site with its dozens of temples. oh god. but it. you never hear one of our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently. i don't know if the time meditation

center provided the space this time the surgery marathon is being funded with money from thailand. the conditions are almost luxurious in comparison with many places they've worked such as nepal's most on the region on the border with tibet. you have to. get there on a small tree not currently has. been to the street altar planes from there to walk the horseback for 4 days to reach. some travel across. passes 16000 feet to get there. and if you do hang out. a solution to get into the aria so you spend distracting turn up with meals on the seating. improvise some beatz wooden beats with nails or things like that.

the next morning the 4 surgeons have arrived and the operations can begin hundreds of cataract patients come in hoping they'll be able to see again. if the morning welcome to have a flash like. water. if. doctors will meet looks over the patient's. glasses here to waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. i think. we're going to do probably about 250 patients really. at least wanted to get him started screaming. this is until one of the 4 would be. off. i

was asked. if the surgeons all share the operating theatre working side by side. now it's glossies turn doctor to wait himself will operate on both a. her eyes one after the other. he's very precise and extremely quick on average he only takes 5 to 7 minutes per eye. doctor to wait removes the clouded lens he developed this technique himself in the 1980 s. . in western countries in the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery . and you no longer news for the disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. i was virtually

sleeping eating dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of hard work reach him down to stop just as a good technique that was fairly simple under still get very good results through cost could be done to a lot of patients dr roots method has been applied in countries like indonesia and even north korea now doctors come from all around the world to learn from him this time he and his team enjoy support from thai doctors and volunteers doctor to pong is so run our own pan and doctor now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. are going to take me when i saw the new operating technique which doesn't use stitches or ultrasound i was impressed and since then i've been using this method on my patients in time and i feel. them all me equally in my case somebody told me about an operating method that took less than

10 minutes at 1st i couldn't believe it but then when i saw a doctor we'd do it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him but i'm getting . an artificial lens adapted to get his vision is implanted in her eye. and she's made it through the procedure. like. now everybody can rest up for the next day. the next morning the 253 patients who've had their operations come for their follow up exam it's the moment of truth for good lassie she'll find out if she can see

again. that you. have done to get there it is for the moment please keep your eyes closed the physical. the big moment has come. now you can open your eyes and look over here. can you see d.c. anything but yes yes so much of the whole. little bit. just how can you see all right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now 5 this case i wanted so much to be able to see again i wanted to look at my thoughts now i can see everything. in the middle mirror of my feet up. to.

one last check up glasses operation went smoothly with no complications. i didn't feel great not only for the fact that to be able to see but it can make a difference to their families. you know subsistence family like all. there's a strong family agricultural family. the family members are fine for gather really closely and one member is disturbed the cold reading of the family is disturbed and there's a comical for sure the social press are so dismembered we look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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