His arrival into the field this time will perform cataract surgery on 600 patients at Military Hospital in Padang for free. This is the third time he did a mass cataract operation in Indonesia.
Previously Dr. ruit has done the same thing 2 times in the year 2011. In a previous medical missions, Dr. ruit already operated on 1600 people of Indonesia.
Special Techniques to Treat Cataracts
Dr. ruit have high interest to help more people, especially people who are blind due to cataracts can look back, because it was known as the 'God of Sight'.
Through a small incision technique he created, now he can help around 3-4 million people in the world to be able to look back. Most of this was helping patients live in developing countries which are blind but can not do surgery because it has no cost.
Cataract is an eye disorder that became the most common cause of blindness. But Dr. Sanduk ruit managed to create eye surgery techniques that can be applied in the community even though he comes from a poor country, Nepal.
Dr. ruit develop techniques of cataract surgery through the veins by creating a small incision or known by the name of the small inscision cataract surgery (small incision cataract surgery) to remove cataracts in the eye and then mengimplan new lens, so that patients with cataract could see again.
Cataracts in the eye is hard, so that we can be sure how tormented cataract patients. Long run this cataracts can affect vision and cause blindness.
Dr. ruit develop ideas International Standard Intraocular Lens (IOL) that the material could be produced by developing countries and be able to replace the function of the damaged lens of the eye.
With these materials then the cost of cataract surgery performed in developing countries will be cheaper, because the lens has a price cheaper than one-fifth the price of phco lens.
"Lowering costs does not mean lower quality, because quality is the most important thing, and I often repeat it," said Dr. ruit who became Medical Director at the Institute for Ophtalmology Tilganga Kathmandu, Nepal.
Small incision cataract surgery techniques have equally good results with phcoemulsification technique but without using a large machine that expensive because it can be done manually with a portable microscope that can be used for community or in society.
When this technique was created by Dr. ruit are well known internationally, especially in developing countries because of low cost and a faster recovery time. Besides helping to normalize and heal the eyesight of more than 100,000 people and trained thousands of medical personnel.
"Blindness from cataracts is expected to rise 2-fold by 2020, because of the increased population will increase the number of cataract," said the doctor who never received the Asian of the Year award in 2007 from Reader's Digest.
In his return to Indonesia times Dr. ruit is also working with the Indonesian military and local health officials to help train 50 doctors in Indonesia perform cataract surgery with small incision methods that can help patients who underwent cataract in the other regions.
"Sight is one of the things that are equally needed by both the rich or the poor, with this technique could be more advanced cataract surgery at an affordable price," said Dr. ruit The awarded Ujjwol Kirtimaya Deep Rashtra Award in 2010.
Curriculum vitae
Dr. ruit was born in 1955 (56 years) than uneducated parents who live in the Taplejung District of northeast Nepal, which is a mountainous region in Nepal is very poor and isolated.
His father was a small businessman who put the priority of education for their children. Initially Dr. ruit has aspirations to be a pilot while still in school.
But the death of her brother and sister from diarrhea caused by tuberculosis in 1964, and his brother suffering from pneumonia made him decide to become a doctor.
In 1969, Dr. ruit accept School Leaving Certificate of Siddhartha Vanasthali School in Kathmandu, Nepal and then get an education in India in 1981 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and continued with the study in the Netherlands, Australia and the United States and he was guided by Professor in Australia, Dr Fred Hollows.
Together with Dr. Fred Hollows he has developed a strategy of cataract surgery with minimal dissection of a small incision cataract patients thereby helping the blind to see again.
He was married to a nurse for the eyes to become his wife in 1987, his wife also became a pillar of strength for him in the face of difficult days while he pursues his dream project in Tilganga.
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