In another, an old woman who can't see appeals to me to convince her family to get her cataracts operated upon.
In Mexico cataracts are the second largest cause of impairment and the prevalence is rising, yet the poor are ill-served and private and even charitable solutions are out of reach for 65% of the population.
Animals generally do poorly with eyes with cataracts, substandard reproductive performance, dramatically reduced survival, slower growth rates and elevated frequencies of tumours.Chernobyl is a wildlife heaven only in a biblical sense.
Exactly which traits were being selected for by this vicious process remains a mystery, but with the discovery of so many birds living with cataracts it seems likely that being able to function with limited vision is one.
Among the patients arriving on the river bank to have their cataracts removed and their hernias fixed at the new hospital is a pregnant woman who is bleeding alarmingly.
But cataracts unrelated to age are surprisingly common in birds living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.This is revealed in a new study by a pair of ornithologists, Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders Moller of the University of Paris-Sud, which is published in the Public Library of Science.
MANY medical conditions associated with growing older, such as cataracts and blocked arteries, can nowadays be readily treated.
He would have gone to a nursing home, but Homeplace intervened: if the state could arrange for the wife to have her cataracts removed, he could go on living at home.
Cloudy lenses, for instance, known as cataracts, are routinely replaced with clear, artificial ones, and many elderly people see all the better for it.The lens, though, is a simple bit of the eye.
However, contrary to the way cataracts work in the rest of the world, those in the eyes of birds living near Chernobyl appeared regardless of whether they were young or old.
There are perhaps 12m blind people in India, with most cases arising from treatable or preventable causes such as cataracts.
