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Doctors Carry Out Mass Surgeries in Burma to Reverse Blindness

Burma has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, afflicting an estimated 8.1 percent of the population in rural areas. More than half of the cases are due to cataracts, which cloud the eye lens over time. Now, a team of Nepalese cataract experts have been allowed into the country to perform more than a 1,000 free operations in what is hoped to be the first of many such ventures. Here at the Yangon Eye Hospital, an amazing transformation has recently occurred. In a matter ...

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