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After conducting a successful Cataract Outreach Surgery in Lumbini, the team arrives in Phaplu, Solukhumbu – in the foothills of Mount Everest. Here, they are seen setting up the mobile operation theatre. The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation conducted 172 cataract surgeries during this high volume cataract outreach surgeries program in Phaplu from 16th April to 18th April, 2021.

Sanduk Ruit said of the program:

“Unfortunately, there remains a huge need in the world for the kind of accessible free treatments that we will provide. Now we have the passion, expertise and resources to tackle this problem on a completely new scale. For Tej Kohli and I this is about achieving something greater than we could ever dared to have imagined. We have already identified 40,000 future patients in Nepal and 40,000 in India.”

Tej Kohli said of the program:

“Second chances matter. When you cure someone of blindness you give them a second chance at life. They can be economically active. They can enjoy and look after their family. Yet millions of people in the world remain blind because they do not have access to treatment. This alliance with Sanduk Ruit means that we focus on potentially helping over a million people in need.”

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Tej Kohli is a London-based technologist and investor whose interests also include global real estate. He is the largest individual esports investor in Europe after committing €50m as part of a $100m total investment into Switzerland-based Rewired. Tej Kohli set up the Tej Kohli Foundation in 2005 after founding and then selling a series of companies clustered around online payment technologies.

Between 2015 and 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute in India welcomed 223,404 outpatients and delivered 43,255 surgical procedures for free. In 2019 Kohli donated $2m to support scientific breakthroughs at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston to fight blindness using new nanotechnology and DNA hybridization techniques.

Amongst its many projects the not-for-profit Tej Kohli Foundation has provided funding for a COVID-19 vaccine in the USA; has consistently operated free canteens to feed children in Costa Rica since 2005, and since 2019 the Tej Kohli Foundation has provided free bionic limbs to disabled teenagers in the United Kingdom.

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Sanduk Ruit is an ophthalmologist from Nepal who has restored the sight of over 130,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery. He is also one of the founders of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology. For his work in taking quality, life-transforming cataract surgery to the world’s poorest people, he has been referred to as the "God of Sight".

In 1994, Ruit helped to found the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, which provides free treatment to those who cannot afford to pay. It manufactures high-quality intraocular lenses for surgery at a fraction of the price of its previous manufacturing cost. The extremely low cost of these lenses has made quality cataract surgeries more affordable to the world’s poorest populations.

Ruit was awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding, considered to be the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, for his work enabling the needlessly blind in the poorest countries to see again. In 2018, the Government of India awarded Ruit the Padma Shri, its fourth highest civilian award.