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Since its beginning in the mid seventies, Aravind has served some 27 million eye care patients. 3.4 million have had surgery, most to reverse blindness caused by cataracts. Here a line formed to see doctors at a camp organized in a village 25 miles away from the main facilities in Madurai, India.

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