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Are you making yourself Kadha to stay protected and boost your immunity? Here’s what doctors say about consuming it.

The director of PGIMER Chandigarh, Dr Jagat Ram grew up in a small village in Himachal Pradesh and went on to win the Padma Shri for his trailblazing work in the world of cataract surgery.

"It has never been about the money but about the people. As a doctor, it is my duty to use my skills to the best and help them. And there comes a day when we work towards something that simply makes us happy. I was lucky to have found that out rather early."

Type 1 Diabetes commonly occurs in children and can cause problems affecting eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, brain and feet. But here's how these complications can be prevented.

Meet Dr Namperumalsamy, the Chairman Emeritus of Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, who has been replacing cataracts safely and quickly to a record of one every 15 minutes.

Dr Ruit searched tirelessly for an alternative way to treat cataract, without huge costs.

Under this scheme, the Delhi government is allowing 52 specified surgeries, free of cost, at private hospitals in Delhi/NCR. These include heart bypass, cataract surgery and 17 types of kidney surgeries.

There are only about 12,000 ophthalmologists in India for its one billion-plus population. That is a massively skewed ratio of one ophthalmologist for every 90,000 people!

A breakthrough campaign, Help Me See uses cutting-edge solutions to treat cataracts — the leading cause of blindness in India.

The story of how a father-son duo used crowd funding to secure cataract surgeries for restoring the vision of 100 blind women in rural Telangana.