Elevating the status of women in many parts of Southeast Asia would benefit women and their families. There are many areas where empowering women would uplift society. One way to elevate women's status and self-esteem is to train them to work in eye clinics and assist with ...
In 1999, I joined the Prasad Project as the youngest eye surgeon in a group that intended to do 300 cataract surgeries a day for four days. The advanced team had cleaned out a rural Indian factory floor to make it safe for eye surgery. The doors ...
I founded and was the Medical Director of a Corneal Transplant Eye Bank in Santa Rosa.The Medical Director of Seva Foundation Chundak Tenzing asked me to help complete the training cycle for this yet-to-be-launched corneal transplant program in Western Nepal.In the two-thirds of the country west of Kathmandu, ...
At age 20, I went to India for a Williams College-sponsored semester of Indian Art and Religion. During the five months, I witnessed so much blindness that I redirected my studies to medicine. For 40 years, I have dedicated myself to working in India, Nepal, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Having ...
THE SETTING: Tikapur High School Yard, Nepal BBH EYE FOUNDATION 100 Cataract/Implant Surgeries a Day in a Classroom? A surgical team in four-wheel drives took a three-hour trip from the city of Dhangadhi to a high school site for a large cataract surgery camp. The patients had ...
