Himalayan Cataract Project: Eradicating Avoidable Blindness through Medical Innovation, Global Collaboration and Compassionate Capitalism
| Case Code: CSRS021 Case Length: 13 Pages Period: Pub Date: 2025 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.400 Organization: The Himalayan Cataract Project Cureblindness Industry: Healthcare and Services Countries: United States Themes: Healthcare, Social Enterprise |
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The Himalayan Cataract Project
Ruit was born in 1954 in the remote Himalayan village of Olangchungolain at the foothills of Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal. He received a scholarship from the Nepalese government and studied medicine at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India. He went back to Nepal and joined Bir Hospital in Kathmandu. In 1980, Nicole Grasset, a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist, came to Nepal to work on a nationwide blindness survey for WHO. As a medical officer, Ruit accompanied her, and the study inspired him to study ophthalmology. He received a WHO scholarship and completed a residency in ophthalmology at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, India. There, Ruit honed his skills in micro-surgery..
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