A BAREFOOT SURGEON WITH A VISION
Poor and blind, what’s a worse recipe for a miserable life? That too, in a region which is not exactly known for its medical facilities? Thanks to a ‘Man with Vision’, the ophthalmologist Dr Sanduk Ruit, many poor people with ‘avoidable blindness’ have been able to get back their eyesight. This, not just in his home country of Nepal, but also in other neighbouring Asian countries as well as in Mongolia, North Korea, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Kenya.
Dr Ruit is the Founder & Executive Director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, the implementing body of the Nepal Eye Program. Tilganga has an international centre of excellence for ophthalmology training, and its surgeons have been conducting camps to train eye-surgeons
