Shanduk Ruit : The God Of Eye

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Sanduk Ruit is an opthalmologist from who has restored the sight of more than 130000 people across Africa and Asia using small incision cataract surgery.He is also the founder of Tilaganga Institute of Ophthalmology.

• Born=September 4,1954
• Birth place=Olangchung Gola, Taplejung District,Nepal
• Occupation=Ophthalmology,eye surgen
• Spouse=Nanda Ruit
• Award=Padma Shri
• Education=King George'Medical University,Siddharthha Vanasthali School,All India Insititute of Medical Science

"What i really believe is life very
short and what you can do in that
period you most do it can change their life.
It can change the life of their family"
Sanduk Ruit

Biography

Sanduk Ruit was born in Olangchungola in 1955B.S, a remote village in Eastern Nepal — so remote the nearest school was a week's walk away. ... Ruit's sister died of tuberculosis when he was 17. This experience led him to become a doctor. Ruit was an enthusiastic and tenacious student who excelled in his studies.

Early life and education

Ruit was born in uneducated parents in the remote Olangchungola Pass in Taplejung District of northeast Nepal, a mountain area of Nepal. The nearest school was eleven days away by foot in his village. However, his father, a small-time businessman, placed a priority on providing education to his children, sending Sanduk to St Robert's School in Darjeeling and providing financial support to his early medical career. Ruit was motivated to practice medicine partly by the death of his sister from tuberculosis.
In 1969, Ruit received his School Leaving Certificate from Siddhartha Vanasthali School in Kathmandu, Nepal, and later was educated in India beginning in 1981 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and also studied in the Netherlands, Australia and the United States, and was mentored by an Australian Professor, Dr. Fred Hollows.

Award

He was honor by different award.
May 2007, Ruit was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia, "for service to humanity by establishing eye care services in Nepal and surrounding countries, and for his work in teaching and training surgeons, and technical innovation".
June 2006, Dr. Ruit was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
On 17 December 2015 he was appointed Member of the National Order of Merit of Bhutan [in Gold].

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Accomplishments

Working in Australia in 1986, Ruit and Fred Hollows developed a strategy for using inexpensive intraocular lenses to bring small-incision cataract surgery to the developing world.However, the lenses remained too expensive for many cataract patients. In 1995 Ruit developed a new intraocular lens that could be produced far more cheaply and which, as of 2010, is used in over 60 countries.Ruit's method is now taught in U.S. medical schools.Despite being far cheaper, Ruit's method has the same success rate as western techniques: 98% at six months.
In 1994 Ruit and The Fred Hollows Foundation founded the Tilganga Eye Center, now called the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, in Kathmandu.Tilganga has performed over 90,000 operations and trained over 500 medical personnel from around the world, and produces Ruit's intraocular lenses at a cost of less than US$5 each.It also produces prosthetic eyes for US$3, compared to imports that cost $150.For those unable to reach the Center, or who live in otherwise isolated rural areas, Ruit and his team set up mobile eye camps, often using tents, classrooms, and even animal stables as makeshift operating rooms.
After treating a North Korean diplomat in Kathmandu, Ruit persuaded North Korean authorities to let him visit in 2006.There he conducted surgery on 1000 patients and trained many local surgeons. However, many of the citizens attributed the restoration of their sight to the current supreme leader of North Korea at the time, Kim Jong-il.

Ruit credits his wife, an ophthalmic nurse he married in 1987, as being a pillar of strength to him in his difficult days while pursuing Tilganga.