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Gift of Sight | Al Jazeera 101 East

Al Jazeera 101 East travels with Dr. Sanduk Ruit from Nepal to Indonesia, a film by Yaara Bou.

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Geoffrey Tabin and the Himalayan Cataract Project

Ophthalmologist Dr. Geoffrey Tabin talks about his work restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project.

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Restoring Sight to the Cataract-Blinded Poor

In China or Ethiopia, Rwanda or Nepal, the scenes are the same: crowds of patients waiting in the open air, bandages over their eyes. Each has been blind for months...

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Sight for sore eyes

It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone's life. In that time, the Nepalese doctor can make a small incision in his patient's eye, remove the cloudy cataract...

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Miracle Mile

What do you get when you combine six eye surgeons, thirteen runners, six educators, two nonprofits, 871 cataract patients, 63,000 students, two of the fastest men on the planet, and...

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Geoff Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, co-founders of Cure Blindness Project
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Visionary

The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable. "Second Suns”, a new book by David Oliver Relin, tells...

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Books: New and noteworthy

Tells the story of two doctors – one from the U.S., one from Nepal – who have worked to stop preventable blindness through the Himalayan Cataract Project; by the late...

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Lessons In Healthcare From 20,000 Feet: Bhutan's Solution To Eye Care

In Bhutan, there are only eight ophthalmologists. With a population of roughly 750,000, that’s about 90,000 patients for each eye doctor.

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Eyesight to the blind: Cheap, fast surgery tackles cataracts

They may look like the "Odd Couple" of ophthalmology, but a Nepalese doctor and his American counterpart's promotion of a dirt-cheap, ultra-fast, assembly-line form of surgery is restoring sight to...

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