SSI is a certified 501(c)(3) Medical Service Non-Profit Organization
Surgical supplies are purchased at cost from pharmaceutical companies such as Bausch and Lomb and Alcon (as well as many others) with whom SSI board members have had long standing working relationships.
In addition to providing sight-restoring surgeries, SSI also provides professional skills support and training for local surgeons who may lack the resources to continue their medical education and improve their surgical skills. Didactic lectures, practice surgery and live surgery are tailored to the particular local surgeons’ needs and level of skill.
Sight Surgery International
is a charitable organization that organizes and implements
sight-restoring surgery clinics throughout the developing world, serving
populations where blindness from cataracts is a scourge.
Current
estimates are that cataracts blind over 25,000,000 people worldwide.If those people had access to a simple
operation, their eyesight could be easily restored.
Cataract surgery is a safe, predictable, and life
transforming procedure performed in less than 30 minutes under local
anesthetic.The sheer magnitude of
the need for blindness remediation, coupled with such a simple and inexpensive
solution, has catalyzed the SSI team to refine a truly responsive
solution.
SSI recruits volunteer surgeons from economically developed as well as emerging countries to donate their time and professional skills to perform cataract surgeries in remote locales where eye care may never before have been provided.
VOLUNTEER
EYESIGHT
RECOVERY TEAM
Your donation brings sight to life for poor patients in the developing world.
