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that. the smart way is to get twitter. global mobility show every week w. . it as. why people in this part of the world can't get the surgery that you get to new york in london in the 1st. dr sunday mission is to hope the blind seen no matter how poor they are. doctor has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has

restored eyesight to over 100000 patients and. place. blame the bad. doctor and his team make the rounds of nepal's of rural areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. the big our mission mr will deliver high quality sustainable i care specially for those bunch of us to. come to. that's a really bit a sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets. howard dean i have

a feeling dean has got the solution. to come back for de lima's affectively. and he backs up that claim with thousands of cases dr who 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 be fully under your cool how much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients will cannot afford to be free of cost. the wait 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's southern ted i region ordinarily very few people in the area would have access to medical care. cataracts have left glassy how do you john functionally blind in both eyes. she can only distinguish light and dark and is dependent on help from her relatives. good tonight i don'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 and that could be very happy if 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 waylaid. now along with hundreds of

patients good lassie is waiting for her operation which will be free of charge. the doctor who eats motivation for treating people like you lassie was not born of idealism he came from a poor family and 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 meinolf. 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. she developed to a close is we're back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor said caesar stand to their primary line and medication sister half sick in me about intimidation and you know we didn't have money and access to

the 2nd line up so the doctor said the best you could do is to go home and. i had a little conversation with her and she said brother for you how about basti you potential. to do something in life and please do not forget you can do something in life she said and 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.

but it. you know look here when 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. we have to. get here on a small country not directly. into a street alter planes from there to walk or horseback for 4 days to reach. some travel across. passes 60000 feet to get there. are needed to hang on. a solution to get into the aria so this band is to hang out with meals on the c.b.

. improvise some baits wooden beats with nails and 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. i will still be wanting them to have a flash like. water. if doctors really looks over the patients. the last is here to waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. at the. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today.

at least one of the conditions are good and screening. this is until one of the 4 would be. the surgeons all share the operating theater working side by side. now it's glossies turn doctor to eat himself will operate on both of her eyes one after the other. is 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 and they used to take about 45 minutes to one hour for

surgery. and you no longer news for all the disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. so i was virtually sleeping in the team dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of horrible we came down to stop just as you could picnic that was fairly simple and still get very good results through cost and could be done a lot of patients doctorates 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 time doctors and volunteers doctor to pong isa run our own pan and doctor now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. got to hit 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 thailand i kill. them for me 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 a week through it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him but i'm getting. an artificial lens adapted to get lost 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. i. haven't wanted 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. any good you have to yes yes. much of the whole. look over here. in that case i can see all right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 i'm now 5 this case i wanted so much to be able to see again i wanted to look at my doctor now i can see everything

. in the middle misrepresenting the. one last checkup glasses operation went smoothly with no complications i didn't feel a great move only for the fact of being able to see but if they can make a difference in your family's heart. you know subsistence family like all of us must join family thank you cultural family on the family members are trying to give their pretty closely on one member is disturbed the pool really don't know the family is disturbed founder's that you can only go for sure the social press are so dismembered we look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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