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.
More ways to support! We’ve joined Venmo.

More ways to support! We’ve joined Venmo.

Please consider contributing to our Cataract & Medical Mission to Peru (March 21–28, 2026). Your help restores vision and funds critical healthcare services. Venmo @sightsonhealth501c3  
Voices of Ecuador: Patient Interviews, Stories, and Care

Voices of Ecuador: Patient Interviews, Stories, and Care

By Gina Fernandez International & Education Programs Coordinator, SEE International seeintl.org Patient Interview Summary – Fanny (49) & Ana Lucia “Anita” (64) Surgical Date: 5/20/25 Procedure: Left Eye Cataract Surgery (second eye for both patients) Interview Type: Video and in-person interview (partial transcription)  (Left) Fanny – 49 yo and (Right)...
Cataract & Medical Mission: Peru 2026 — Be Part of the Team

Cataract & Medical Mission: Peru 2026 — Be Part of the Team

We are preparing for our Cataract Surgical and Medical Mission 2026 to Peru. Would you like to join our team? March 21-28, 2026 Volunteers needed: Medicine team: they will travel to communities for 4 to 5 days 3-4 MDS of various specialties 1-2RNs 1 pharmacist 1 medical resident & 1 medical student 1 administrative assistant 1-2 translators...
Support Our GoFundMe for the NYC Five Boro Bike Tour!

Support Our GoFundMe for the NYC Five Boro Bike Tour!

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...
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...
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-...
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Welcome!

Welcome!

The School of Medicine at Stony Brook University has established an annual mission to the Sacred Valley of Peru and Cuzco in an effort to provide the people in this area with health care and public health. The mission is four to six weeks in June and July and involves medical students, volunteer attendings, physicians,...