20 people and wounded dozens of others. still watching details we can use from building up next in reporter where we meet and i talk to in the cold changing lives there's more news on our website com and you can hopefully also follow us on twitter and instagram at t w didn't respond to our great thanks for watching. cuts. they were forced into a nameless mass. of. their bodies near jewels. the history of the slave trade is africa's history. to struggle for

power and profit plummeted an entire continent into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. i think 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. why people in this part of the world can't get the surgery that you get to new york in london you know for. dr sun dooku its mission is to help the blind seen no matter how poor they are the nepali i doctor has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has

restored eyesight to over 100000 patients and. doctors who eat and his team make the rounds of nepal's rural areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission ministry will deliver high quality sustainable i care. especially for those want to march to. baghdad. that's a really big a sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets. out. i have

a feeling that team has got the solution. to come back to the site of the imus 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 pay full under people who don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients. it cannot be free of cost. dr the way it has the lenses required for the operation is 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 u.s. dollars dr who each brought it down to $3.00. these lenses

are intended for patients in a paul's southern 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. for her son r.j. is the family's sole provider thing that. i'd be very happy if my mother were able to see again. then. 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 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. person to me was my younger sister and c and i used to live in kathmandu. while i was going to school. see developed into a close as we had back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor say caesar stand to their private line of medication sinister half sick in line i'm

a teacher and you know he didn't have money and access to the 2nd line up so the doctor said done the best you could do is to go home and. have a little conversation with her and she said brother for you how about capacity potential. to do something in life and please do not forget you can do something in life and you know maybe this is going to last and we're going to meet. not long after that dr drew it sister died. while dr drew 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 never hear one of our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently if you are only one 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 have worked such as nepal's region on the border with tibet. we have to. get there on a small tree not. been to the street altar planes from there to walk the horseback for 4 days to reach. off and travel across. passes 60000 feet to get there. and if you do hang out. a solution to get into the aria so you span

destroying a target with meals on the ceiling. improvise some big hits wooden bits 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. because the morning welcome to have a flashlight. water. doctors to meet looks over the patient's. colossi is here to waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. i think. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today. at least one is

biggish and started screaming. this is continue one of the 4 would be. shifted off. but i. have 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. horizon one after the other. is very precise and extremely quick on average he only takes 5 to 7 minutes per eye. doctor to eat removes the clouded lens he developed this technique himself in the 1980 s. . in the west country in the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery.

and you know longer just lot of disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. so i was virtually sleeping the team dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of she you know a lot of hard work we came down to stop this is such a technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results will cost could be done to 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 thai doctors and volunteers doctor to pong is around our own pan and doctor now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. i got it to 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 killed. me in my case somebody told me about an operating method that took me less than 10 minutes at 1st i couldn't believe it but then when i saw a doctor we do it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him and 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. and. i. am going 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. yes yes moment of the whole. look over here. chris i can see you 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. to know my rep my feet up . one last check up glasses operation went smoothly with no complications i didn't feel great not only for the fact that you feel able to speak for the day can make a difference in their families. you know subsistence family like all. those who must join family agricultural family. and the family members are going to go there pretty closely and one member is disturbed the cold reading of the family is disturbed and those that you can only go for show you the social press are so dismembered we look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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