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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Out of sight


Raj Kaliya Dhanuk lies still on a bed with weights on her eyes after receiving local anesthesia at a community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 18 miles south of Katmandu, Nepal, on Feb 13. Dhanuk and more than 500 others, most of whom have never seen a doctor before, traveled for days by bicycle, motorbike, bus and even on their relatives' backs to reach Dr. Sanduk Ruit's mobile eye camp. Ruit, known as Nepal's God of Sight, pioneered a simple surgical technique allowing cataracts to be removed safely without stitches through two small incisions. He estimates sight has been restored to several million people through his assembly-line approach. 

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