A different room was selected for surgery this year in the hall of Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh, Dichen Dongala Eye Treatment Center Taplejung. In previous camps, the room where patients were lying down was used for surgery and the surgery room was used for patient comfort.

Dr. Sanduk Ruit, who has earned fame in eye treatment, and his son Dr. Sagar Ruit performed the surgery in the camp that ran from Sunday to Tuesday. While the father and son were operating on two chairs in the same hall, Sanduk's wife and Sagar's mother Nanda Shrestha Ruit continuously assisted in taking the patient to the operating room and preparing materials such as tape.

According to Kazi Gurung, clinic in-charge of the Taplejung Eye Treatment Center, Nanda would enter the operating room with Dr. Babu and his son, provide necessary assistance, and leave with them. Ganga Gurung, who was deployed as a volunteer at the camp, said, "Nanda Mem (Sanduk's wife) takes such care that she would monitor the patients being taken for surgery, whether they were being given medicine or not, how they were laid down after the operation, and would give us advice."

A television screen was also placed at the surgery site. Both doctors' assistants would continuously provide medicines and other supplies. Nanda would watch the screen and prepare other necessary supplies and assist the surgeons.

In three days, the Ruit father and son operated on 209 people. Compared to their father, the son Sagar opened almost twice as many eyes. Sanduk and Sagar operated on 79 people and 130 people, respectively, and both performed general surgeries on 7 people, according to the Netra Jyoti Sangh Taplejung.

On the first day, Sunday, both eyes of 6 people were operated on at once. ‘Anyone who does not do both operations at once has confidence,’ said the judge, ‘I was worried and interested about the outcome, but only six people saw the difference in both eyes.’

Bishnumaya Limbu of Hangdewa, Phungling Municipality-9, who had both eyes operated, saw her younger daughter-in-law for the first time by her voice. After the surgery, when the daughter-in-law opened her blindfold in the courtyard of the Bal Mandir, she said, ‘Do you recognize me?’ and stared blankly at him, seemingly unresponsive, and responded, ‘I am not a daughter-in-law.’

Laxmi Maya, the daughter-in-law, says that her eyesight has been impaired since she became a daughter-in-law a year and a half ago. She even had her mother-in-law tested by covering one eye with her hand and looking at it with the other to see if she could see both eyes.

The free camp was organized by Netra Jyoti Sangh and with the technical support of Tilganga Eye Hospital, Kathmandu. Rajkumar Gurung, the president of Netra Jyoti Sangh, informed that a team of 21 people including doctors came to Taplejung for the camp. According to President Gurung, the camp lasted for four days even though it was said to be three days. The day before the camp started, the people who had come to the eye treatment center for tests and suspected of needing cataract surgery were tested and confirmed. 1,633 people were tested during the camp.

Sharmila Gurung, 56, from Kathmandu to Taplejung to undergo surgery at Sanduk's hands

Sharmila Gurung, a resident of Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, had cataracts in her left eye. She wanted to get the surgery done at Sanduk Ruit. For that, she reached Tilganga Eye Hospital. But since it would be possible only after three months, she did not come to the camp to be held in Taplejung and underwent the surgery. She said that she underwent surgery on the first day from the box.

Khagendra Adhikari, a member of the Central Information and Communication Department of the Netra Jyoti Sangh, says that people from Panchthar, Tehrathum, Sankhuwasabha and Bhojpur have come to get eye treatment from Ruit.