doctors wheat and his team make the rounds of nepal's rural areas they operate on local people who've developed cataracts. our mission is true will deliver high quality sustainable i care specially for goes on to march to. baghdad. 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 claims practically. 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 pay full under vehicle don't have much money if subsidized on their body we can bring in some patients we cannot afford to be free of cost. doctors always 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 $200.00 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. who is he like i'd be very happy if my mother were able to see again. that me. so she'd be able to go everywhere on her own. period and i. now along with hundreds of preexistent patients glassy 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 you know. 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 were back in probably late sixty's were to go to the doctor and doctor says or stand to their primary line of medication sinister half 2nd line to make sure. 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 call home and. have

a little conversation with her and she said brother for you how about trust the 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 doc to 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. but it. you know look here when 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 have worked such as nichol's most on the region on the border with tibet. we have to. get here on a small country not currently. been to a street alter planes from there we have to walk back for 4 days to reach. some travel across. passes 60000 feet to get there. pretty to hang at. a solution to get into the arias so this band is to hang out with meals on the seating plan to improvise some big hits 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. both the morning welcome 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. we're going to do probably about 250 patients today. at least lunatic asians have been screened. this is continue for another 4 days. off.

the surgeons all share the operating theater working side by side. now let's 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 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 lot of disposables and very expensive. a new method was required for the nepali villagers. i was for chile

sleeping the team dreaming. about the surgical technique nearly after 5 years of you know a lot of hard will reach him down to stop this is such a good technique that was fairly simple and still get very good results and will 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 dr now a porn deshaun a city to have learned from him. got to take me when i saw him. 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 time and i feel bad. 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 dr week do it i was amazed and i wanted to learn it from him and i'm writing. 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. you. have 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. here is the end of so much of the whole. look over here. to se you right yes very well how many thing is that my holding up 5 and now 2 and now. 5 left a kite i wanted so much to be able to see again but i wanted to look at my thoughts now i can see everything. from the middle of my feet up.

one last check up glasses operation went smoothly with no complications i didn't feel great motion before the fact let me be able to sleep for the day can make a difference in their families my heart. you know subsistence family like all of us joint family agricultural family. the family members are going to gather really closely and one neighbor is disturbed the pulido of the family is disturbed and there is that you can only go for sure the social pressures are so dismembered we look back and revitalize the rhythm of the family.

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