For nearly twenty years, this 65-year-old Filipino man lived in a darkness that began as a simple cataract at age 40.
The world gradually dimmed for him until he stopped recognizing faces, streets, and the color of the sky. No one in his family could afford surgery. Until Dr. Noel Jusay Lacsamana, at his clinic at the International Eye Center in Pampanga, decided to operate on him without charging him a cent.
The procedure lasted seven minutes. When his bandages were removed, the man focused on the room, searched for the doctor with his eyes, and clung to his shoulder, crying: “hands made by God”, he repeated. “
Lacsamana says that more than 60% of his patients today are charity cases like this one, people who cross the entire country in the hope of seeing again.
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