Himalayan Cataract Project to be featured on 60 Minutes
Watch the 60 Minutes special report on the work of the Himalayan Cataract Project. Air date to be announced.
A cataract-blinded, heavily pregnant woman travels 400 km to have her sight restored and delivers her baby just after her scheduled eye surgery. A six-year-old boy regains his sight and sees the face of his parents for the first time in his life. Stories like these seem unlikely but are part of the remarkable everyday lives of doctors Sanduk Ruit and Geoff Tabin. Together, the eye surgeons have personally performed nearly 200,000 successful cataract operations across the developing world.
The amazing story of their revolutionary, low-cost, 10-minute procedure caught the attention of “60 Minutes,” the CBS television news magazine. Program host Bill Whitaker and a team of film-makers caught up with Ruit and Tabin in Myanmar while the surgeons were leading a cataract and cornea workshop for 30 local ophthalmologists. The workshop resulted in 700 sight-restoring surgeries, including corneal transplants, all completed in just a few days.“Title to Come,” the story of those few days in Myanmar and the success of the Himalayan Cataract Project curing blindness throughout the developing world, will be aired on CBS affiliates at 7 p.m. EDT. Consult your local listings or visit www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/ for details.
