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In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a woman suffering from blindness walks out of the changing room as others sit on a bench holding their diagnosis papers in-hand, waiting to enter the anesthesia section at Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a woman suffering from blindness walks out of the changing room as others sit on a bench holding their diagnosis papers in-hand, waiting to enter the anesthesia section at Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

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In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a Nepalese woman suffering from blindness sits in the sun to keep herself warm as she waits to enter the anesthesia section at the Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a Nepalese woman suffering from blindness sits in the sun to keep herself warm as she waits to enter the anesthesia section at the Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

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In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a woman suffering from blindness walks out of the changing room as others sit on a bench holding their diagnosis papers in-hand, waiting to enter the anesthesia section at Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a woman suffering from blindness walks out of the changing room as others sit on a bench holding their diagnosis papers in-hand, waiting to enter the anesthesia section at Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

AP 

In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a Nepalese woman suffering from blindness sits in the sun to keep herself warm as she waits to enter the anesthesia section at the Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

In this Feb. 13, 2010 photograph, a Nepalese woman suffering from blindness sits in the sun to keep herself warm as she waits to enter the anesthesia section at the Hetauda community eye hospital in Hetauda, about 40 kilometers (18 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal. Nepalese master surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit estimates sight has been restored to 3-4 million people through his assembly-line approach. Once condemned by the international medical community as unthinkable and reckless, this mass surgery 'in the bush' started spreading from Nepal to poor countries worldwide nearly two decades ago.

AP 

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