The surgeon, the millionaire and 500,000 eyes

Patients waiting for the bandages covering their eyes to be removed following surgery at a cataract camp in Basantapur.

SHE never dances with her husband, but when the bandages were peeled from her eyes after a double cataract operation to cure her blindness, Nepali farmer Santi Maya leapt up to clasp his hands.

“I am so happy,” said Maya, who does not know how old she is, as the elderly couple swayed on the playground of a school converted into a temporary eye hospital.