doctors wheat 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 specially for those much obliged. and. that's a really big sense of mission. working for. more than 3 tickets. out. i have a feeling team has got the solution. to come back to affordable lameness perfectibility. 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 don't have much money be subsidized and thereby we can bring in some patients will cannot afford to be free of cost. so the wait has the lenses required for the operation 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 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 things that could be very happy that my mother were able to see again. danny. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own. 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 leave it come on to. her while i was going to school. to develop to a close as we are back and probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor said caesar stand to the private line and medication city street half 2nd line of meditation 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 the best to 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 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. our 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 of the region on the border with tibet. we have to. get there on a small tree nocturnally. been to the street altar planes from there to walk horseback for 4 days to reach. travel across. passes 16000 feet to get there. we need you to hang out. a solution to get into the are you so you spend destroying target 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. because the morning it will come 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. i think. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today. at least what is occasions that the kids treat. this is until one of the 4 would be. off.

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. 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 eat removes the clouded lens he developed this technique himself in the 1980 s. . in western countries and the street take about 45 minutes to one hour for surgery . and you no longer use for the disposables and it's very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. so i was virtually

sleeping eating dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of hard work we came down to stop the show surgical technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results through 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 have learned from him. was 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 thailand i feel. them call 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 we'd do it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him and i'm writing . an artificial lens adapted to give 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. and. 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 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 you have the yes yes so much of the whole. look over here. chris i can 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 doctor now i can see everything. from you know more 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 few people to see but if they can make a difference in their families doctors. do not subsistence family like all. it's a joint family agricultural family bond the family members are fine gathers very closely and one member is disturbed the whole rhythm of the family is disturbed and there's a comical pressure of the social press or so this member would look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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