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vendor who gave the home side the way in this back and forth 7 goal thriller. you're watching did of a news coming to you from berlin stay tuned for reporter for a meet an eye doctor in nepal changing lives omarion and steam and the entire team thanks for watching. were systematically robbed by the nazis. and after the war there were no signs of compensation. jewish or collectors and announced some on her 3rd right didn't steal all these hard works just to get more money it was true and they
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everything connected to jewish culture today researchers are searching for the missing works of art. challenging for the experts. and painful for the descendants. of the soma. dart and the 3rd reich starts feb 10th on t.w. . the 5th. why people in this part of the world can't get the surgery that you get in new york in london in the 1st. dr sun do 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.
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doctors who eat and his team make the rounds of nepal's of rural areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission ministry will deliver high quality sustainable eye care. specially for goes on to list. and. that's a really big sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets. out team i have a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable i miss frick deeply. and he backs up that claim with thousands of cases dr who each
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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 and people who don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients. cannot afford to be free of cost. dr the weight 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
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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 did not 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'd be very happy that my mother were able to see again. then. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own. and i. now along with hundreds of patients glossy is waiting for her operation which will be free of charge. doctor
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who eats motivation for treating people like you 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 leave me come on to the car while i was going to school. to develop to a close as we are back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor said his wrist into the prime of my medication sister half sitting in a meditation. you know he didn't have money and access to the 2nd line up so the doctors had done the best you could do is to call home and. have
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a little conversation with her and she said brother 3 you have by steve potential. to do something in life and please do not forget you can do something in life says that you know maybe this is going to last and we're going to meet. not long after that dr sister died. while doctors who it is still on his way to the south of naipaul 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 know look you will know our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently. i don't know if the time
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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 most on the region on the border with tibet. we have to. get here on a small tree not currently. into a street alter clearance from there to walk the halls back for 4 days to reach. some travel across. passes 16000 feet to get there. if you do hang out. a solution to get into the are you so you spend is to attack turn up with meals on the seating. improvise some big hits wooden beats with nails or things like that.
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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 it will come to have a flash like. water. doctors will 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 would be patients that could finish. this is until one of the 4 would be.
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off. but i think. the surgeons all share the operating theater working side by side. now it's glossies turn doctor 2 week himself will operate on both. horizon 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 in the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery . and you no longer use lot of disposable isn't very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. i was fortunately sleeping
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in the team dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of hard work we came down to start to see a surgical technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results through cost and could be done for 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 have learned from him. got 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 thailand i feel i bought. them for me
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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'd do it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him but i'm buying. 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 a good lassie she'll find out if she can see again. that.
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you. haven't 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. any good yes yes yes. of the whole. little bit. of pressure can you see all right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now 5 ok 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.
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one last check out the glasses operation went smoothly with no complications. i didn't feel great emotionally for the fact of being able to see but if they can make a difference in their families not. enough subsistence family like ours a joint family agricultural family on the family members or friends can gather pretty closely and one member is disturbed the pulido of the prime minister on days that you can only go for show a little social presser so this member would look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.
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there are no fight left in scotland. or are they coming to hear on the show by pearson vikings march to the strings. this unique ritual is part of the telly on. the biggest fire festival in europe. the romex. next on top of. oh. have fun in pyongyang. the capital city of north korea is reinventing itself. but only a few can enjoy the benefits for those the regime allowing. kim jong un introduced and insidious reward system to coerce allegiance to the regime of.
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those who don't make it into the fun metropolis are often toggery. have fun in pyongyang starts february 28th on d. w. . no this is not a theme from hollywood movie. you'll soon find out with these vikings that are up to. hello and welcome to another fun edition of your own max i'm your host meghan lee here's a look at what else.

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