Nepalese ophthalmologist wins Isa Award for Service to Humanity
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Dr. Rowett has helped cut the rate of treatable blindness in half in Nepal.
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Abdullah Khalifa: "Many challenges in reaching people working in humanitarian service."
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The Board of Trustees of the Isa Award for Service to Humanity announced that the Nepalese ophthalmologist, Dr. , Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Isa Award for Service to Humanity, in the presence of members of the Board of Trustees of the Isa Award for Service to Humanity, and representatives of various regional and international media.
Abdullah Khalifa, Secretary-General of the Isa Award for Service to Humanity, confirmed that 145 candidates from different countries of the world applied for the award in its fifth session, and they were carefully selected. With experience and scientific, legal and academic competence.
He revealed to «Emirates Today» that there are challenges represented in reaching people who work in the humanitarian service, as they often do not have the opportunity to apply for these awards.
He added, "There is a great challenge represented in reaching out and discovering the bodies involved in humanitarian work, which could not apply and run for this award because they are preoccupied with charitable work. Therefore, we are working to form a specialized international team to explore the bodies that provide humanitarian work and did not get the opportunity to apply for this award." .
The award-winning doctor, the Nepalese ophthalmologist Dr. Sunduk Roit, is world famous for creating a new method for treating cataracts, and he was also able to develop a new lens implanted inside the eyeball, which can be produced at a much cheaper price than its counterparts, as it is a cheap lens that helped him perform surgery To treat cataracts in less than five minutes, during which he removes cataracts without stitches through small incisions, and replaces them with a low-cost artificial lens, he has also managed to treat more than 120,000 affected patients.
The winning doctor established a local factory for the production of inexpensive lenses. This factory produces more than 350,000 lenses every year for patients with cataracts.
And while the manufacture of one lens is $ 100, in Dr. Rowett's factory it costs only three dollars.
The lens that is manufactured at the Dr. Rowett Institute is of comparable quality to its expensive counterparts in the developed world, according to scientific studies.
The honored doctor, during his 30 years of tireless field work, has performed more than 50,000 eye surgeries, as a non-profit charitable work, benefiting a sector that is unable to bear any financial cost.
During the past 30 years, Dr. Rowett contributed to reducing the rate of treatable blindness by about half in Nepal, and he trained more than 650 doctors from all over the world, to transfer his experience to them, so the total number of successful operations performed by these doctors exceeded 35 million surgeries around the scientist.
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