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  • Dr Sanduk Ruit

    Dr Sanduk Ruit is a long-time friend and partner of The Fred Hollows Foundation. World-renowned Nepalese ophthalmologist Dr Ruit has performed more than 100,000 sight-saving operations in his distinguished career and is founder and Medical Director of The Foundation’s partner organisation in Nepal, the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology. Born in a small remote village in the north east of Nepal, Dr Ruit's start in life was tough. His village, which sits at an altitude of 11,000 feet, was poor and had no electricity.

  • Dr Sanduk Ruit features in Ray Martin's 'A Current Affair' special report

  • Jet - Shine on for Fred Hollows

    A video tribute (full version) to Australian eye surgeon Fred Hollows, featuring music by Jet. Thank you to Jet and all The Fred Hollows Foundation's supporters for helping Fred's work to shine on.

  • Latest treatment could soon be affordable for all

    Director of the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal, Dr Sanduk Ruit, has told The Himalayan Times that research is underway with a Swiss company which may bring state-of-the-art eye surgery to the developing world.  "We have been able to simplify the procedure [for] phacoemulsification cataract surgery, and slashed the cost of equipment necessary by about half," Dr Ruit said.

  • Fred Hollows

    The Foundation's CEO Brian Doolan, Dr Sanduk Ruit and others share their thoughts on Fred Hollows the man, his work and his continuing legacy. Thanks to Fred's pioneering efforts tackling avoidable blindness, over one million people have had their vision restored.

  • Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in Nepal

    Preoperative visual acuity of people undergoing cataract surgery in rural and urban Nepal  R Gurung, M K Shrestha, A Müller, S Ruit, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

  • Keeping Fred's dream alive

    The late Professor Fred Hollows spent most of his life working to end avoidable blindness and to improve the health of Indigenous Australians. Fred and Gabi Hollows and friends set up The Fred Hollows Foundation in 1992 so his work would continue, and we take our lead from Fred.

  • The Foundation

    The Fred Hollows Foundation is a lean and independent, non-profit, secular organisation that was started by Fred and Gabi Hollows and friends the year before he died. The Foundation has worked in over 40 countries around the world and with Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia, and continues to be inspired by Fred’s lifelong endeavour to end avoidable blindness and improve Indigenous health.

  • Overseas

    In 1985, as a consultant to the World Health Organization, Fred visited Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh on short-term assignments. Two years later he visited war-torn Eritrea and saw doctors operating in hospitals dug into mountains as the war raged above. These experiences had a huge effect on Fred and, in line with his basic belief in “equity between people”, he started to work towards reducing the cost of eye health care and treatment in developing countries.

  • Fred and Gabi

    Gabi and Fred first met during her training in orthoptics in the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s, they were working together at the Prince of Wales Hospital where he was head of the ophthalmology department and she was the senior orthoptist. Fred was preparing for the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, which needed a range of medical health professionals, and Fred asked Gabi if she would come on the road with him.