On the counting the cost cracks in the global economy. Which are. So. Making china president she is. Counting the parts. Hello and welcome again to rewind im elizabeth purana here on the wall and were drawing on a decade of Award Winning documentaries and finding out how the story has moved on since today be revisiting a moving series which followed doctors working against the odds in the south african township of soweto and once home to Nelson Mandela so what it was at the forefront of the countrys antiapartheid struggle back in the 1970 s. Hundreds died when student protests were put down with tear gas and live ammunition yet more than 25 years after the end of apartheid so what over maines a dangerous and disadvantaged place at chris hani but ive been at hospital one of the largest in the world and known locally as bata maybe 70 percent of all admissions are emergencies many of them gunshot wounds about as Ophthalmology Department the st john i hospital treats around 50000 patients every year many of them victims of Domestic ViolenceBullet Wounds and car hijackings back in 2009 al jazeera aired a series of films on the work of bottles medical teams and today weve chosen to focus on those i doctor is facing a severe work. Cloyed with insufficient responses here is saving so seeing the light. So went to a south africas most populous township and home to millions of by. Some chance i can it is part of the massive chris tiny paragon of hospital also known as barack and has the biggest eye hospital in the southern hemisphere. Many of sowetos poor and indigent utilize the services on offer. We serve a Huge Population here of the greatest separators probably at least 2 and a half 1000000 we dont know the exact numbers and we know it is they are hospital weve been here since 1955 and be part of berra and we have a good reputation we have a lot of social violence Motor Vehicle accidents and it is then also gunshot injuries that come to us in our main function was to do catch a surgery here we are overwhelmed on a daily basis by all the trauma that. Dr rob daniel is a few weeks away from completing his 5 year residency at st johns and he will be moving into private practice and i think that. This is the screening clinic the function of which is to filter out to needs to be seen today and really to pick up the most urgent problems and really to treats small problems that can be sorted out in a short period of charm on the loop. On a typical day rob can see between 2 and 300 patients. And. The stress of them in this is africa is always short equipment is always a problem. Most of us have our own equipment just to get through. The barracks we check the same day because if theres any problem then we want to be able to. You just pick it up right away or youve got a date for today you can go to the main clinic youve got to follow the structure just go make clinics and people with trauma will see them the said and we organize a card for them and then theres a scene in the mine and they don the bottom shift up says. Patients are referred from the Screening Room to the main clinic they can wait most of the day in the queue. Every day we talk to patients that come and see a c o m e people the being should. Know something at this stage was. This. Is the time tested. A repeat patient 43 year old polish led into the clinic by his friend pulls blindness was caused by untreated diabetes his wife couldnt accompany him as she is the familys only breadwinner she supports poland their 4 children leave to go to court also his rights are retreating that essentially try to make him comfortable letting the next move of pirates out without trying to get individually driven through a car. But unfortunately taken a turn for the worse story called stuck to him and connor a senior doctor to get a 2nd opinion on poles cases its a big book its huge huge you know the its coming out good going to 6 i was able to supply 90 or so we have to look at some of that with. The knowledge the eyes open. Is going to become very very. Soon so the best option for you really to have an operation like this where we would remove the our. Hair understand. I doctors have to have reasonable eyesight you can do a commodity if youve got poor vision because whatever we do were using a license to see the pathology in the eye to make the diagnosis we see more and more of these now can cause blindness in a variety of ways cataracts occurred earlier in diabetic patients they do get damage to the blood vessels. Sometimes they develop new blood vessels which could all at the back of the eye which believe they can get him to just. Thats what thats the more obvious he said new blood vessels growing in abnormal blood vessels which were leaking and bleeding and this weighs had a huge bleed and that bleed created a cloud that you couldnt see through thats why he had the surgery done yesterday. We have to draw them into nights the next time this patient comes if somebody else easy middle east he knows what weve seen at the last because it would be a good thing to read a book and you know. We deal with people in terms of their life the vision the city must in. A sense which you have to not have that said to me how all the old laws of the old how old are the. Long time. Looking new ones abroad can. You go back to old losses obviously theyre not going to be set up for the new lens that we put inside you are so that could well be the reason. Why its not seeing well in the distance but at least we look for a reason the new found. The moment. Rudnick sees a 75 year old woman he presents with cataracts look like. A simple operations over store has sucked but there is a 2 year waiting list at john. Because thats right so theyre really related to. 60 percent of 6 year olds 70 percent of 7 year olds and song. Know about us and those. Who have called 5 year who have anything can go get when it. Comes that they go. Big smile. That would drop. You know i was. Told as the. Old saying about the eyes the window to the soul. We doctors i mean we deal with people on a very personal basis which is fundamentally based on trust comfort which a patient feels by us caring for them thats what gives us a lot about job satisfaction. Brought thats it. Another day there but. Its. Yeah i mean. For some doctors its another day seeing patients on the benches while for hemant its a Pediatric Clinic which brings its own particular challenges. Though. Its wrong. For you. Can suck it they dont like to be touched are you going to try to guess they when they awaken with a plea for. Some sweets. Its just going to be patient with there in the video on these kids who use things like hundreds and thousands just to get an estimate of what their visions last. Year. Whats it you see that. Right. There. I mean really can see me. 80 percent of all sin city put comes from the eyes and also the way you view the wall perceive the world come from my eyes basically i mean these are kids that i can only know some of them you can do something about someone in your country and it could developmental problems you know when you are walking along the route its you that follows the boy who probably has a neurological disorder if i was he would be referred to bear. For further tests like now you know i show you the small streets he doesnt he can see there you know see looks like you can see large objects but you cant see the smaller ones youre not. A part of the bigger than women sleeping babies got some sort of syndrome you know. Todays post surgery dory will be removing his eyes and inserting a silicone ball into the empty socket to stop the pain that also in his blind eye is causing him. Sorry for him to think so but sorry this is painful because of his blindness paul has never seen his young son in the same way. My love my mom when my son lost one due to. I dont know you so what 10 miles from here and. Im getting my weather more im looking for a. Family doing whats called a restoration. Basically or move the corner and put in a silicone ball to have some volume to orbit a classical. On the ice block 3 opted to give him a final solution and deliver suresh right now im just cutting rather coming into. The work with 3 other things with the. Following in place in the world you have a fit because the exposed to so many different conditions. Right so thats. Where weve put the silicone bowl in our now were just going to close up were going to close a square on in the country when were done. Really well there are a lot of problems like complications to the success of the treasury. And it should be filed polish it should go out tomorrow. The doctors at st johns i can volunteer their free time to operate on a few of the thousands awaiting cataract surgery. Called the mercy list this gives sight in one eye to those who are completely blind. Who was there on the board. All. The time was confusion here its going. To. The mostly list patients are fortunate to jump the 2 year waiting list and this issue is to live with all of them under local anaesthetic so none of the patients are going to be really asleep reject them with the local anesthetic injection every go. Youll see that start going away in ok slowly slowly. The simple procedure will change their lives restoring their vision and independence in only 20 minutes. If agree want to try to give a perfect operation youre going to try to Perfect Pitch there because if you get into their private life the next step is you. Know the couple have developed in millions their limbs in your eyes normally clear. As you get older it becomes a pacifier. And this was a quote here. From wolf were just remove that their natural lives we set a catholic and that you personally is going to replace the patients and thats really because if you dont put a lens in the person youre in a very strong glasses the focus. Of this landscape is in the. Case of all but i think when you say you dont have any pain. No pain. Finish operation when a very nice. Letter over the course of it work or rob is about to perform his last cataract surgery at st johns before completing his 5 year training at barron his last patient is a paraplegic hes hoping to make her life easier with one less disability. By 0 point one and done clear a lot to continue to carry to see. Her all need me to see all the big books and. They do and it was. The incidence of cataracts is extremely high no matter where you go its the bread and butter of any of the mothers you practice because its the most common program. Its actually the most Successful Operation that we have in modern made some that means that the results are good one of the reasons i did up some of that was you wouldnt most of the town. I want to vacuum 200 says of from other diseases is probably one of the fastest areas of growth and medicines just unbelievable i mean a year ago i was telling patients theres nothing i can do for you for this or that condition and today i can offer them the treatments its just you know exciting. Robs move into private practice will allow him to keep up with the latest technologically fon suits which barack turned to his office. The doctors have operated on 8 mostly list patients who come and finishes with the last patient of the day. Enjoy what can ya enjoy doing your procedures if i can. What gives me excited is getting sidetracked so thats a real big deal to them and the other thing is this isnt also an academic institutions. Theres always new things to merge. The so many things with the 4th line because i think in the future we should be able to cure almost all blind. And kill blood. Its got to both the new. Place in the afternoon rob gets another perspective of barrels from the. Plates to floss more there but quite challenging to the very technical of the technical side. Of the research over the whole beach to fly her home but it really is amazingly liberates experience. Up to the top to the problem of the palm. Pilot. To one of. The other for the up of all. My wallet out and the problem for your father who of us from minnesota. Over here oh yeah wait a minute there are one hospital. Its a sister of the gold mine of experience. I suppose you know a lot of songs going into private practice. I feel quite confident with the experience of going to. This morning the doctors on call the rifle work to find 2 trauma cases waiting for them the patients have been sent to them from the trauma unit. And this gentleman who try to hijack a post. Through the broken board versus. The stratosphere of. Everything. With south africa having one of the highest crime rates in the world car hijackings are commonplace acts of senseless violence often accompany the crimes. To. The press or it is no respecter to see the fear the damage its. Real thats what i need to. Talk to people that. You see anything that was all. He said about. You but. Its hard to hear a little bit down the corridor that. Youre. Going to have to take it off. You know well put them all into it and then we put. The boss on the front with that i went. Under a books the man for surgery and quickly moves on to deal with a case of Domestic Violence. She says she was thrust punched in the right of as well but it wasnt as one and she sustained less rushing to unload there is still need to have a look at the life to see whether there is really very still as well as theyve ever looked out over the only look down her theyve got fancy but. Can you see me take tea can you see how this will. Sister can you ask her whether she can see nicely with that i with the division is down on the other dont have to be. Here and we have been there you can see me. About 33 just needed to have a look. Ok. Were going to need to operate this our viewers can. In south africa one woman is killed by her partner every 6 hours leading to the highest rate of femicide in the world. So this morning to see better. You look for to me please. Ringback see her nurse cataract operation you got there you know they only did the writer write it 5 he died 65 weve got an easy. To morning morning. How is your not. The only one. Missing. Its going to. Be up to. The surgery went well that was it was difficult for 3 cataract was extremely hard but ultimately shell soon very well. But this for its. Too late to lay. This. Sort of a well. Known. But said to leave actually its quite a special place. That was saving so wetter seeing the light rewind return recently to see how much has changed in the decade. Some but not. A. God. One a little by little out book. Living and giving that. Poor little. Place to live my job the bigger ones so. When we 1st met dr Robert Daniel he was finishing his 5 year residency st Johns Hospital its a way to. A decade on he continues to serve the community he set up a charity called banani which means let us all see inside africa zoo language. This is Incredible Technology what what it does measures a childs vision from one meter in one second and it gives us an automated result from the day we able to screen our children who have pathology and we then expose them to a fool i examine national and allow them to be treated in the 1st world environment. Because this is so simple that in such a portable we literally in a in a toilet. And we can deliver this to everybody. I got. 5. With his portable commitment dr daniel can set up his clinic anywhere including this toilet in a Community Center he can examine 300 or more children in one session. It was his time at st Johns Hospital in soweto to inspire him to continue serving to pull even though he now runs a successful private practice with the latest technology. I think spending 4 years serving. The great work population. In front of the experience on to me that. Im so Privileged Group of people i conned to know all the aspects of life the way we dont all have these for them to. Talk to daniel also treats adults its an eye clinic based in this church. In terms flo people got it. In english we call it a cataract so the cataract means that the lens inside is. Going to arise for you to have an operation. 10 years later the plight of you average person in the Flow Community in south africa is no better perhaps even a little worse than what it was this is a great motivator for us to keep giving back to these communities and to a little bit to improve their lot. Well thats it from rewind for this week there check out the rewind page on aljazeera dot com for more powerful films from. From man is a problem and the rewind team thank you for watching and see you next time. I care about how the u. S. Engages with the rest of the world i cover for impulse be natural for purity this is a political impasse heres the like are we telling a good story merely to fit in take new into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel that you were there the slums of manila. Into an Extraordinary Community men who risk their lives telling garbage into cash so that their families can survive. 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