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One vision: the surgeon, the millionaire and 500,000 eyes / 33JA7P6
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Surgeon Sanduk Ruit has run cataract treatment camps for years in the Nepalese towns on the Himalayan hillside. The country has one of the world's highest rates of cataracts, where the lens of the eye slowly clouds over, with vision blurring before giving way to blindness.
With fresh funding from an ex-convicted turned tech multimillionaire, the surgeon plans to restore the vision of 500,000 people worldwide by 2030. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES