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Article reproduced from Marie Claire. Clarify Clinic. Book Now. Filed Under: Plastic Surgery. Email Address. First Name. Last Name. Read more : Americans and working. The Himalayan Cataract Project trains doctors, nurses and technicians in developing countries in a system of surgery whose price and Henry Ford-like approach to quickly moving from patient to patient in the same operating room couldn't be more different than the pricey surgical suites of American hospitals.

The surgeon then puts in a lens implant, and the incision closes on its own, without any sutures required. The surgeon then moves onto the next patient lying on an adjacent table in the same room, and one of the blind people waiting their turn in a line of blind people outside is brought in and prepped for surgery while the other patient undergoes the procedure.

But "several of our best Nepalis" can do the surgery in "three-and-a-half to four minutes," he added. And a day later, "about 80 percent of the patients see well enough to pass the U. Read more : E-cigarette sales explode. Doctors trained by his and Ruit's project also perform the surgery in such countries as Tibet, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia and in Africa, where disease and other public health problems such as poor nutrition and limited access to clean water fuel cataract-related blindness.

Tabin said he and Ruit created the project because having home-grown physicians do the surgeries in their own countries was a more efficient way of combating the spread of cataract blindness than relying on doctors from Western countries to occasionally visit to perform the operations. David Chang, an American ophthalmologist who recently was part of a team with Tabin that did nearly cataract surgeries over five days in Ethiopia, called Tabin and Ruit "the two most unlikely partners you can imagine.

But after coming from opposite ends of the world and cultures, "they link up and collaborate in a way that is doing as much to change cataract blindness as anyone else in the word," said Chang, a University of California, San Francisco professor and past president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.