Kim Chun Son, 48, is overcome with emotion when Nepalese doctor Sanduk Ruit takes off her eye patch during a post operative examination in North Korea in 2005.
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Kim Chun Son, 48, is overcome with emotion when Nepalese doctor Sanduk Ruit takes off her eye patch during a post operative examination in North Korea in 2005.
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Lapka Tamang, 82, before and after his eye surgery in Pullahari Monastery on the outskirts of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
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Lapka Tamang, 82, before and after his eye surgery in Pullahari Monastery on the outskirts of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
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Han Mong Guk, 80, embraces his son as he sees him for the first time in 10 years after eye surgery in North Korea in 2005.
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Han Mong Guk, 80, embraces his son as he sees him for the first time in 10 years after eye surgery in North Korea in 2005.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit conducts a surgical training workshop with North Korean eye surgeons in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit conducts a surgical training workshop with North Korean eye surgeons in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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A recovering patient prays during a post operative examination session in Medan, Indonesia in 2011.
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A recovering patient prays during a post operative examination session in Medan, Indonesia in 2011.
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Onlookers watch as Shanker Twayana, head technician of the Tilganga Institue Eye Bank, extracts the corneas from the donor on the banks of the Bagmati river in Nepal in 2000.
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Onlookers watch as Shanker Twayana, head technician of the Tilganga Institue Eye Bank, extracts the corneas from the donor on the banks of the Bagmati river in Nepal in 2000.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit and his Tilganga Institute of Opthlamology Team performs a surgery on a 9-year-old boy in Nepal in 2011.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit and his Tilganga Institute of Opthlamology Team performs a surgery on a 9-year-old boy in Nepal in 2011.
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Women in the Myanmar Outreach Eye Clinic in Yangon wait for their eyes to be examined after cataract surgery in 2013.
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Women in the Myanmar Outreach Eye Clinic in Yangon wait for their eyes to be examined after cataract surgery in 2013.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit examines Daw Yin, 65, after surgery in the Myanmar Outreach Eye Clinic in Yangon in 2013.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit examines Daw Yin, 65, after surgery in the Myanmar Outreach Eye Clinic in Yangon in 2013.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit established Tilganga, an eye hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal with the late Australian ophthalmologist and philanthropist Fred Hollows in 1994.
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Dr. Sanduk Ruit established Tilganga, an eye hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal with the late Australian ophthalmologist and philanthropist Fred Hollows in 1994.
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