Born into the lowest tiers of a rigid caste system in a tiny remote village in the Himalayas, Sanduk Ruit started life with absolutely nothing to his name: no money and no connections. Few would have ...

Gyalyum Kesang Choeden Wangchuck National Eye Centre in Thimphu, Bhutan now has its first eye hospital. Dr Sanduk Ruit and his Tilganga Outreach team conduct a surgical Eye Camp in Thimphu. The last ...

Amidst a grand programme at Isa Cultural Centre in Manama, Bahrain's monarch Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa handed the Isa Award for Service to Humanity to Dr Ruit. The award, which was announced here on ...

IT’S 6.17pm and Dr Sanduk Ruit’s 56th patient for the day has just laid down on his ­operating table. The eye surgeon has never met 16-year-old Debaki Basnet, but the schoolgirl’s arduous 30km trip, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Dr Sanduk Ruit was working as an eye surgeon in his home country of Nepal long before he met Fred ...

MANAMA: Dr Sanduk Ruit, noted Nepali ophthalmologist, will receive the fifth edition of Isa award for service to humanity, a top civilian honour of the Kingdom of Bahrain. "The Nepali ophthalmologist, ...

Manama, Jan. 17 (BNA): Dr Sanduk Ruit, the Nepalese ophthalmologist who won the Isa Award for Service to Humanity, had gained international acclaim for developing a novel approach to treating ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly three decades ago, when Dr. Sanduk Ruit and his team proposed the idea of producing high-quality intraocular lenses (IOLs) in Nepal, they were met ...

Wangdue Phodrang Outreach Eye Camp Bhutan 2022. Tej Kolhi and Dr Sanduk Ruit. One of the core senses that inform us of our surroundings is sight. Without it, daily tasks can be near impossible and ...