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Et nytt toalett for en eldre enke
# Et nytt toalett – bedre verdighet og trygghet
Blindness is not inevitable. The operation takes fifteen minutes.
A cataract makes the lens of the eye cloudy. It happens slowly: first the writing blurs, then faces, and in the end a grandmother who was healthy depends on someone to lead her to the toilet. More than 94 million people are living with cataracts today.
What makes this more than a sad statistic is that the condition is reversible. The World Health Organization describes the procedure as a simple fifteen-minute operation, and as one of the most cost-effective treatments in medicine. Sight returns straight away, and it stays.
Even so, almost one in two people who go blind from cataracts go without the operation. Not because it is impossible, but because it costs more than the family has. Women are hit hardest — they consistently have poorer access to treatment than men, in every region of the world.
A wheelchair is about the same thing: not curing anything, but letting a person get out of their room.
94 million
people are affected by cataracts.
1 in 2
of those at risk of going blind from cataracts lack access to the operation that would give them their sight back.
15 minutes
is how long the procedure takes. WHO describes it as one of the most cost-effective treatments in medicine.
«Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set the captive free.»
Sources
- One in two people facing cataract blindness need access to life-changing surgery (opens in a new tab). World Health Organization (WHO), 2026. Accessed 11.08.2026.
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Cataract eye operation
1 000 kr
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1 000 kr