दृश्यका देवता’ (गड अफ साइट) डा. सन्दुक रुइतको जिवनी

 

Dr. Sanduk Ruit is a renowned Nepali ophthalmologist and director of the Tilganga Eye Center, which received the Raman Magsaysay Award in 2006. He is also the pioneer of the world famous simple and low cost cataract treatment 'Ruitectomy'. He has performed more than one lakh cataract surgeries with his own hands. Born in Olangchungola, a Chinese border village in the eastern hill district of Taplejung. Ruit is today known in the country and the world as the 'God of Sight'.

Born in 1955

Ophthalmologist [Eye Surgeon] Spouse Nanda Ruit has one son and two daughters.

Dr. Ruit grew up in Olangchung Gola, at the head of Tamorkhola, which still takes four days to reach from the district headquarters. Father Sonam used to trade salt, rice, horse and changra between Nepal and Tibet. Three of the father's six children died in Kalilai. Dreaming of becoming a doctor, he walked 15 days from his birthplace Taplejung's Olangchugola to study in Darjeeling. I enrolled at St. Roberts Missionary School. In 1962, there was a Sino-Indian border war, which closed schools in Darjeeling. His father brought him to Kathmandu and enrolled him in Siddhartha Vanasthali School. In 1970, Siddhartha passed SLC in first class from Vanasthali School.

 After studying ISC in Trichandra, he went to King George Medical College in Lucknow, India to study MBBS in the scholarship quota. After passing MBBS, he came to Nepal and spent three years as a 'General Physician' in Veer Hospital. He went to India again and started studying MD at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). After studying at AIIMS for three years, he returned to Nepal in 1984 and worked at the Tripureshwor Eye Hospital. After working at Tripureshwor Eye Hospital for eight years, he went to Australia in 1987 to study for one year. While living in Australia, he was offered a job in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He did not look at the offer and came to Nepal.

He dreamed of an eye hospital, which was accompanied by Dr. Hallows of Australia. The Fred Hallows Foundation in Australia, Nepali social worker and writer Jagdish Ghimire, artist Madan Krishna-Harivansh, entrepreneur Rabindra Shrestha, Suhrit Ghimire, industrialist Diwakar Golchha, Everest climber Shambhu Tamang and Dr. Rita Gurung were present to open the hospital. Thus, the Tilganga Eye Center, which was born in June 1994, has now become a human resource training center.

He has served in many developing countries. Her work in North Korea was broadcast as a documentary by National Geographic

Awards and honors

 Raman Magsaysay Award - 2006

 Padma Shri - 2018 by Government of India 

 Prime Minister's National Talent Award - Government of Nepal 2019