HCP Co-Founder Dr. Geoff Tabin has been profiled by NOVA’s “The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers.” Watch a few fun and interesting video clips on this website.
Al Jazeera 101 East travels with Dr. Sanduk Ruit from Nepal to Indonesia, a film by Yaara Bou.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Bhutan, there are only eight ophthalmologists. With a population of roughly 750,000, that’s about 90,000 patients for each eye doctor.