While I am thankful for you and other like you, who have chosen to go to developing and third world countries to treat them of blindness that can be avoided, what about the people back home? I have a co-worker who has had a cataract in his left eye for about 2 months now. He cant go to a doctor because his insurance will not cover his surgery (his insurance is complicated, but all I could get from our talk was that the surgery costs around $4k, and he'll have to wait another 2 months before he insurance covers the whole thing).
I have other friends too who can not go to a doctor/dentist/chiropractor/etc. either because their insurance does not cover it, or they have no insurance.
You rendering your services to these people in need in our "developed nation" would also be greatly helpful.
Other than that, please keep doing what you're doing. There are a lot of unfortunate people in some of the countries you mentioned who do not even know that some of the diseases are easily curable, and they never go to a doctor out of fear that they might be too expensive.
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Really happy to read about your work.
While I am thankful for you and other like you, who have chosen to go to developing and third world countries to treat them of blindness that can be avoided, what about the people back home? I have a co-worker who has had a cataract in his left eye for about 2 months now. He cant go to a doctor because his insurance will not cover his surgery (his insurance is complicated, but all I could get from our talk was that the surgery costs around $4k, and he'll have to wait another 2 months before he insurance covers the whole thing).
I have other friends too who can not go to a doctor/dentist/chiropractor/etc. either because their insurance does not cover it, or they have no insurance.
You rendering your services to these people in need in our "developed nation" would also be greatly helpful.
Other than that, please keep doing what you're doing. There are a lot of unfortunate people in some of the countries you mentioned who do not even know that some of the diseases are easily curable, and they never go to a doctor out of fear that they might be too expensive.
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