With a mission to cure blindness by direct intervention, Tej Kohli and Dr Sanduk Ruit’s Foundation is closing the treatment gap for the world’s poorest – with remarkable results
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Meet Dr Sanduk Ruit, the Barefoot Surgeon who’s cured 130,000 of blindness
As the recipient of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize for healing the sight of hundreds of thousands, the Nepal-born ‘God of Sight’ is determined to help heal millions more
We have to cure blindness if we want to reduce extreme poverty
The United Nations’ number-one goal is to eradicate extreme poverty globally, but to achieve that goal, needless blindness in the developing world needs to be addressed, too
Seven-minute miracles: a plan to reduce the number of children with cataract…
LONDON and, KATHMANDU, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation will cure 1,000 children of cataract blindness in an attempt to reduce it by 25% within Nepal and to reduce its prevalence by 0.5% worldwide. Since its launch in mid-2021 the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has already screened 52,541 people and cured 4,243 of cataract blindness at microsurgical outreach camps where surgery to prevent or cure blindness can take as little as seven minutes.
Seven-minute miracles: a plan to reduce the number of children with cataract…
LONDON and, KATHMANDU, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation will cure 1,000 children of cataract blindness in an attempt to reduce it by 25% within Nepal and to reduce its prevalence by 0.5% worldwide. Since its launch in mid-2021 the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has already screened 52,541 people and cured 4,243 of cataract blindness at microsurgical outreach camps where surgery to prevent or cure blindness can take as little as seven minutes.
Tej Kohli is an IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award
Tej Kohli is a technologist and investor who backs ventures in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology. His career as an entrepreneur culminated in the sale of his e-commerce and online payments business in 2006. Since this major liquidity event, Tej Kohli has been an evangelist of the promise of technology to improve human life and has backed ventures all over the world. He is also the owner of the Zibel real estate portfolio and the owner of several global e-commerce providers including dynacart.