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2025 / Ecuador

Support Our GoFundMe for the NYC Five Boro Bike Tour!

by Sights on Health on Mar 18, 2025 • No Comments

This May, 35 volunteer healthcare professionals will travel to Riobamba, Ecuador, to provide those in need with free cataract surgeries and medical (adult & pediatric) services. Since 2012, Sights on Health’s volunteer surgical team has performed more than 735 sight-restoring surgeries. This extraordinary mission also includes a volunteer medical team that examines adult...

2025 / Ecuador

Would you like to join our team?

by Sights on Health on Nov 23, 2024 • No Comments

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 through our PayPal link to assist in purchasing medical & surgical supplies for the mission. Volunteers needed Medicine team: they will travel to communities for...

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Lecture series hosted by Sights on Health

by Sights on Health on Jun 10, 2024 • No Comments

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...

Medical Mission / Peru / Testimonials

Making an Impact

by Sights on Health on Jun 5, 2024 • No Comments

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...

Cataract Mission / Medical Mission / Peru

2024 Cataract Surgical & Medical Mission Cuzco, Peru Recap

by Sights on Health on Jun 3, 2024 • No Comments

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,...

Cataract Mission / Medical Mission

Thank you LATAM Airlines

by Sights on Health on Jun 2, 2024 • No Comments

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

2023 5 Boro Bike Tour

by Sights on Health on Mar 23, 2023 • No Comments

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...

2022 / Education

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

by Sights on Health on Sep 8, 2022 • No Comments

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.

2022 / Peru / Press

SOH Celebrating Their Ten-year Anniversary, Returning to Peru

by Sights on Health on Aug 22, 2022 • No Comments

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-...

Fundraiser

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

by Sights on Health on May 23, 2020 • No Comments

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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