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- EIN 20-3568702
- (805) 969-9121
- Po Box 5515 Santa Barbara CA 93150-5515 USA
- www.sightsurgeryinternational.com
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Causes: Disabilities, Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments Research, Health
Mission: Neurological health international dba sight surgery international (ssi) provides free sight restoring surgery to blind patients in medically underserved areas of the world. Ssi recruits ophthalmologists from both the developed and economically emerging countries to donate their professional services. In addition to sight-restoring cataract surgeries, ssi provides professional skills enhancement programs for local surgeons, including didactic lectures, hands on wet-labs and live surgeries.
Programs: Volunteers performed 1,075 free cataract surgeries in afghanistan, el salvador, and lebanon (see schedule o). One free surgery was performed in the united states.