The co-founder of the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation, Dr. Sanduk Ruit, was honored by the Kingdom of Bahrain for “Services to Humanity”.

• dr Sanduk Ruit is co-founder of the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation which has cured 27,936 people of cataract blindness since its inception in 2021.
• The Isa Award for Services to Humanity is presented by the Kingdom of Bahrain every two years to an individual who has served humanity in a profound way.

Co-founder of the London and Kathmandu based NGO the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundationdr Sanduk Ruit, was the next recipient of the award isa price for services to humanity by the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Affectionately known as the “God of Seeing”, became Dr. Sanduk Ruit was born into humble circumstances in a rural area of ​​Taplejung district in the foothills of the Himalayas. dr Ruit excelled in studies, and the untimely deaths of all three of his siblings from diseases that would have been easily treated in the West made him want to train as a doctor.

After graduating, Dr. Ruit focused on treating people with cataract blindness and vowed to develop new methods and institutions to provide high quality, affordable and sustainable eye care to prevent and cure untreated cataract blindness in the remote and impoverished communities of the developing world.

In 1994 Dr. Ruit established the Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in Nepal and established an intraocular lens factory that reduced the cost of IOLs used in cataract surgery from $150 to under $3, making cataract surgery accessible to people on a large scale for the first time in low-income countries. dr Ruit also pioneered an inexpensive surgical method of treating cataract blindness, which is now taught in many regions and is focused on curing cataract blindness in the developing world.

dr Ruit has personally operated on well over 130,000 patients to cure blindness in mobile eye camps in Nepal, India, Bhutan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Ghana and even North Korea. In 2021, Dr. Ruit co-founded the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation with a goal to heal at least 300,000 more people in the developing world by 2030.

dr Sanduk Ruit has previously been awarded the 2007 Asian of the Year, the 2007 Order of Australia, the 2007 Prince Mahidol Award of Thailand and the 2015 King of Bhutan’s National Order of Merit (Gold). In 2006 he was awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Prize. In 2017 he was selected by the Albert Einstein Foundation as one of the “Hundred Leading Global Visionaries of the Century”. In 2018, the Indian government awarded Dr. Ruit the coveted Padma Shri Award.

Tej Kohlico-founder of Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundationsaid of the award:

“We are delighted that Dr. Ruit was once again recognized for his truly unique and amazing contribution to humanity. We are all very proud to work under his leadership and to support this great man as he builds a legacy of social and economic change.”

For more information about the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation, visit:

https://tejkohliruit.com/