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 through our PayPal  link to assist in purchasing medical & surgical supplies for the mission. Volunteers needed Medicine team: they will travel to communities for...
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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Consider a gift to aid Native Americans hard hit by Corona virus

Consider a gift to aid Native Americans hard hit by Corona virus

As we give thanks for all we have this holiday season, we are aware of how devastating 2020 has been for so many people worldwide. It has been frustrating for Sights on Health not to deliver medical care in person despite the need being so great. We are working to find ways to assist those...
Claudia Paul, a NYC based photographer highlights our healthcare heroes

Claudia Paul, a NYC based photographer highlights our healthcare heroes

Sights on Health would like to highlight the work of Claudia Paul, a NYC based photographer. Cathy Roberts and Debra Messina worked with her and her team in South Dakota during the NATIVE EYES 2018 & 2019 missions on Rosebud Indian Reservation. She was the official photographer and videographer for Artist for World Peace. Claudia’s...
FNE International Donation

FNE International Donation

As the pandemic continues to have a devastating affect on many regions in Peru, Sights on Health has donated $1,000 to FNE International to purchase necessary personal protective equipment for Dr Francisco Morales and his staff at Asociacion Winaypaq, Cuzco https://www.asociacionwinaypaq.org/426994404. The donation was tripled by a match from Apple. Dr. Morales left yesterday from Calca...
traveling to remote Minesterio de Salud

traveling to remote Minesterio de Salud

This month Dr Francisco Morales has been traveling to remote Minesterio de Salud (Red Cusco Norte) outposts in the Peruvian jungle such as Puesto De Salud Huachibamba, P.S. Conbapata, P.S. Corimayo to deliver supplies purchased by FNE International and Sights on Health. He and his team delivered many masks, face shields  ten infrared thermometers and eight...
Proud of our Volunteers!

Proud of our Volunteers!

A special thank you to the physicians and healthcare providers working on the frontlines. Listed below are just a few of our past participants and where they’re contributing to help save lives.   These professionals are an important part of our Sights on Health family and have participated in our medical and cataract surgical missions to Peru and Ecuador since 2012;...
3-D Printed Face Shields by Chris Karavoulias & Adam Luter

3-D Printed Face Shields by Chris Karavoulias & Adam Luter

Many thanks to Chris Karavoulias & Adam Luter from Massachusetts. Using their own personal printers, they are printing 3-D face shields to provide frontline healthcare workers face protection. They joined a group dedicated to bringing together people with 3-D printers and hospitals in need - www.makersforcovid19.com So far, Chris & Adam have made more than 250...

Covid-19 Fundraising Challenge For Frontline Heros

Pat Cannon from Mr. Pats Neighborhood is sending you this fundraising challenge. Covid-19 Fundraising Challenge For Frontline Heros from A Promise to Peru on Vimeo.
Thank  You Donors!

Thank You Donors!

Sights on Health is working with hospital administrators at NYC Health and Hospitals, Mather Hospital/Northwell and Stony Brook University hospital to deliver meals to healthcare workers and staff. Here is our campaign.  More details to follow!  As of April 16 – The generosity of the community has been overwhelming- $21,135 has been raised so far!...
Feed Our NY Frontline Healthcare Heroes

Feed Our NY Frontline Healthcare Heroes

DONATE TODAY Sights on Health, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization is asking the community for donations in order to purchase meals for frontline healthcare workers and support staff at the public NYC Health and Hospitals and Long Island Hospitals.  All of us at Sights on Health feel ourselves in solidarity with healthcare providers who are working and...
Feed Our NY Frontline Healthcare Heroes

Feed Our NY Frontline Healthcare Heroes

DONATE TODAY Sights on Health, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization is asking the community for donations in order to purchase meals for frontline healthcare workers and support staff at the public NYC Health and Hospitals and Long Island Hospitals.  All of us at Sights on Health feel ourselves in solidarity with healthcare providers who are working and...
We Stand By You - A Note About The Covid - 19 Pandemic

We Stand By You – A Note About The Covid – 19 Pandemic

All of us at Sights on Health feel ourselves in solidarity with healthcare providers who are working and struggling their way through the Covid-19 pandemic. As a medical and surgical charity providing care abroad with limited resources, we have an idea what it’s like to provide optimal care in tough circumstances.  Now at this time, here in our own community, our physicians,...
Give through Amazon Smile

Give through Amazon Smile

AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers with no additional cost to you. Please consider donating to Sights on Health through AmazonSmile. It’s so easy! Click here to link up with our charity! Invite friends and family to support us in this simple and free way!...