Global Healthcare & Vision Restoration

Sights on Health, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is committed to providing quality, compassionate care for those whose geographical and/or social status limits their access to medical care. A dedicated group of physicians & healthcare professionals from across the U.S.A. volunteers their time to provide free cataract eye surgery, medical care & eye care to those in need in South America.
Would you like to join our team?

Would you like to join our team?

We are preparing for our Cataract Surgical & Medical Mission 2025 Riobamba, Ecuador. Would you like to join our team? May 16-23, 2025 Flights: Round trip  JFK-Quito, Ecuador We are accepting donations to our paypal to cover the coast of airfare for the team. Volunteers needed Medicine team: they will travel to communities for 4 to...
Lecture series hosted by Sights on Health

Lecture series hosted by Sights on Health

Physicians from Sights on Health hosted a lecture series for three evenings through the Asociación Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina at the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC). Thanks to Drs. Joseph Ng, George Coritsidis, Christina Rager and Carolina Pombar for their interesting & informative presentations to the...
Making an Impact

Making an Impact

Sights on Health was able to have a significant effect on so many people’s lives on this past mission to Cuzco, Peru. One story that comes to mind that had all of us so touched was about a 30-year-old patient. Due to a childhood illness he was deaf and in his...
2024 Cataract Surgical & Medical Mission Cuzco, Peru Recap

2024 Cataract Surgical & Medical Mission Cuzco, Peru Recap

Our mission concluded May 24, Sights on Health was able to perform a total of 78 cataract surgeries, 6 yag laser posterior capsulotomy ( removal of secondary cataract ) and 1 pterygium excision. These sight restoring procedures were done as part of this extraordinary 2024 mission to Peru In addition,...
Thank you LATAM Airlines

Thank you LATAM Airlines

Thanks to the incredible generosity of LATAM, our team of 22 members had their second luggage fee waived for all four flights for the round trip: NY to Lima, Lima to Cuzco.  That meant our fundraising dollars were spent on purchasing the necessary medical supplies & eye surgical supplies rather than paying luggage...
2023 5 Boro Bike Tour

2023 5 Boro Bike Tour

Want to join us in making a difference? Any donation will help make an impact in purchasing cataract surgical and medical supplies for the upcoming mission to Ecuador on October 7-14, 2023. The surgical team will provide free sight-restoring cataract surgery to 75 patients & the medical team will travel to...
Michael Sable, MD speaks to StonyBrook School of Medicine Alumni Association

Michael Sable, MD speaks to StonyBrook School of Medicine Alumni Association

Sights on Health’s surgical director, Michael Sable, MD speaks to StonyBrook School of Medicine Alumni Association about his experiences traveling to South America to perform sight restoring cataract surgery with the nonprofit organization Sights on Health, Inc.
SOH Celebrating Their Ten-year Anniversary, Returning to Peru

SOH Celebrating Their Ten-year Anniversary, Returning to Peru

Great News! Sights on Health, Inc. is celebrating its ten-year anniversary since their first cataract surgical mission to Peru by returning to Calca in the Sacred Valley, October 14-23, 2022 for its first cataract surgical mission since the start of the pandemic. It will be a smaller group than in years past-...
Sights on Health raises > $24,000 for campaign to feed our NY Frontline Heroes during Covid -19 Pandemic

Sights on Health raises > $24,000 for campaign to feed our NY Frontline Heroes during Covid -19 Pandemic

Imagine 3,576 healthy tasty meals appearing day and night in various New York area ICUs, emergency departments and hospital floors overflowing with critically ill covid-19 patients and their hardworking caregivers. We hope you can because that’s exactly what you were a part of! When you answered our call and gave so generously...
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June Mission Prep

June Mission Prep

Getting prepared for our mission this June! The eye supplies from Alcon have arrived from Texas. The Students are hard a work preparing and organizing.  Folsom City Host Lions Club and Lions District 4-C5 packed up their donation! Thank you. Photo via ciro morales 

Big Hearts – Published on JAMA

Originally  published on The Journal of the American Medical Association Two decades ago, an American family traveled to Cusco, Peru, and adopted a 3-week-old Peruvian girl. The process was long and arduous and was successful only because of the intervention of some big-hearted strangers. Finally, after 13 months, the family was able to return to...

Thank you!

A Promise to Peru thanks the following for their support for 2011, 2012 and 2013 Cataract Surgical and Medical Missions:  The past and present participants of the missions…the physicians, nurses, and other health related professional, medical students and the families who devoted their time and energies to join us in Peru these past summers:  ...
NYSights

NYSights

Download the NYSight Fall 2013 publication here.      
Fundraiser Dinner at La Parrilla!

Fundraiser Dinner at La Parrilla!

Our fundraiser at La Parrilla was a huge success. Thank you all for attending – we appreciate your support!          
2013 Fundraiser!

2013 Fundraiser!

Many thanks to all who came out last Wednesday to support A Promise To Peru. The profits from our sale will go directly to the 2013 mission for Medical supplies.  
Want to Join Our 2013 Mission?

Want to Join Our 2013 Mission?

Thank you for your interest in Stony Brook’s medical mission to the Sacred Valley  region in Peru. (download pdf) This is a project that is constantly evolving, improving, and also struggling as we face challenges in helping improve the lives of people who live in medically underserved areas in the Sacred Valley and the Andes...

February Fundraiser Event!

Available items for purchase include fine alpaca wool scarves, shawls and hats; hand-woven purses and belts; and other unique items. All profits from this event will be used to purchase medications and supplies for donation to the impoverished rural people of Peru. February 14, 2013 | 7am to 7pm Outside the Hospital Deli in the...

It is with great pleasure that we bring you the second installment of our quarterly newsletter. FriendsNE has been busy continuing our projects in Nicaragua, Peru and Haiti and building relationships within the communities we work. We are grateful for the abundance of hard working volunteers who enable us to put community initiatives into action....
Press: SUNY Faculty and Son Does Mission in Peru

Press: SUNY Faculty and Son Does Mission in Peru

Dr. Paul Galstian, an Assistant Clinical Professor at the College and an Associate Doctor at Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, and his teenage son, Andrew, recently returned from a Medical Mission in Peru.  The mission was organized and run by Stony Brook Medical School.  Dr. Galstian and Andrew were joined by 18 medical students, a...
Summary of A Promise To Peru Medical and Cataract Surgical Missions 2012

Summary of A Promise To Peru Medical and Cataract Surgical Missions 2012

A Promise to Peru was founded by John Shanley, MD, Debra Messina, MD (StonyBrook School of Medicine ‘88) and Natalie DiGioia, MD (StonyBrook School of Medicine ‘01) in October 2011.  The organization works with local New York physicians and Stony Brook University’s medical students who are interested in providing medical care to remote areas of...
Photo Journal #7 by Paul Galstian and Evy Miceli

Photo Journal #7 by Paul Galstian and Evy Miceli

By Paul Galstian By Evy Miceli