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to touch it. to simple channels available to inspire people to take action and more determined to build something here for the next generation the idea is for the environment series of global 3000 on d w and all gnawing. on . white people in the spot of the world com get the same as you but you get to new york to london in a friend for. dr sun dooku his mission is to help the blind see no matter how poor they are the nepali i talk to has developed a method for treating cataracts inexpensively and effectively to date he has restored eyesight to over 100000. nations.

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 is to deliver high quality sustainable like here. especially for those on to march to. baghdad. that's really been a sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets. out. i have a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable

by miss frick deeply. 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 be fully under people don't have much money be subsidized on their body we can bring in some patients we cannot afford to be free of cost. doctors or wait has the lenses required for the operation is made right in his hospital 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 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 to him 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 this 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. now along with hundreds of preexistent patients get lost she 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 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 we to go to the doctor and doctor says assistant to the prime of life and medication sinister half 600 patients and you know he 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 capacity or 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 doctor do 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 i've. got it. you know look here one of our colleagues are saying they can give us the big generator for the lights permanently. a little 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 the street alter planes from there we have to walk the 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 higher so you spend is trying to you know with meals on the seating. 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. that i will still be wanting them to have a flash like water. if doctors will meet looks over the patient's. colossi is here to waiting for her operation. the doctor prepares for his 1st surgery. at the. thank you even if you drop me about 250 patients today feel i can be stored in the kitchen started screaming feel this is continue

for 40 years. i i i. 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. he's very precise and extremely quick on average he only takes 5 to 7 minutes per eye. doctor to wete 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 disposables and very expensive. and you method

was required for the nepali villagers. so i was virtually sleeping in the team dreaming. about the surgical technique merely after 5 years of struggle of horrible we came down to establish a surgical technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results through cost and 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. pocket technique when i saw the new operating technique which doesn't use stitches or ultrasound i was impressed and since then i've been using just method on my patients in thailand i feel bad. for 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 a week through 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. if you. haven't done it get out 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 the see anything. yes yes moment of the whole. look over here. trisha can you see all right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now 5 a case i wanted so much to be able to see again i want to look at my doctor now i can see everything. for me no more of my feet up.

to. one last checkup 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 those mustering family cultural family. the family members are going to gather very closely and one member is disturbed the pool rhythm of the family is disturbed and there's a comical pressure of the social presser so this member will look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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