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# Health Insight

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- [June 2026 San Pedro Sula](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/june-2026-san-pedro-sula/) - Drs. Adeli, Tandon and Vakharia, three ophthalmologists from the US, traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to perform free cataract surgeries for indigent patients. Along with the kind and talented local ophthalmologists, Drs. Farjado and Cordova, they performed sight-restoring surgery on 30 patients, some of whom were blind with cataracts. Two of the doctors brought
- [March 2026](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2026/) - Serving the people of Roatán with Health in Sight Mission puts the focus where it belongs—on Christ and the people He created. Many came in with humility and left with restored sight, but what stood out most was their gratitude and joy. In moments as small as helping put on someone’s shoes and seeing her
- [February 2026](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/february-2026/) - I believe that this trip reminded me why I love what I do and why I chose this field in the first place. I sometimes take for granted being able to help people see every day, seeing it as part of my regular work routine. Being there, it reminded me how every vision check mattered
- [HISM goes to Utila.](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/hism-goes-to-utila/) - Twenty years ago, Dr. Laurie Minton and her husband John dreamed of offering care to the less fortunate in a tent overseas. Mari dreamed of returning to her homeland, Honduras, for a mission trip. Both dreams came true inside a tent on Utila, a Honduran Bay Island, where Dr. Laurie, Mari, and her team provided
- [January 2026](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/january-2026/) - This trip taught me a powerful lesson about relinquishing control and placing things fully into God’s hands. I was deeply moved by the loveliness of the people of Roatán and by their implicit trust. On multiple occasions, patients who were already blind from severe glaucoma immediately trusted my recommendation to proceed with glaucoma laser treatment—without
- [August 2025](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/august-2025/) - We just completed another successful mission trip to Roatan. A team of 21 (4 ophthalmologists, 1 nurse, 2 technicians, and a bunch of eager family and support staff) came together for a week of service. In addition to patient care in the clinic, our youth went to Punta Gorda and sponsored a youth
- [April 2025](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/april-2025/) - Each year for the past three years, a group of doctors and surgical technicians — across different coasts in the US — have come together to Roatan, Honduras for one shared purpose: to restore sight through cataract surgery. Though we live miles apart, the mission pulls us together like family. The days are long, the
- [March 2025](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2025/) - This is our seventh trip to Roatan. My husband and I have fallen in love with the people and the island. This trip was a little different as we were leading our own team for the first time, our first day in the clinic was a bit slower than usual and at first we felt
- [February 2025](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/february-2025/) - 2025 was off to a great start. A team led by Drs Tandon, Adeli, and Vakharia were able to perform 36 cataract surgeries and change the lives of many. This man was blind from cataracts and glaucoma and had two family members help him around everywhere. After surgery he immediately started naming the things
- [August 2024 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/august-2024-missions-trip/) - Our most recent mission trip in August 2024 was one to remember. With one of the largest contingents of volunteers to date, we were blessed to have a remarkable group of individuals, united in purpose and passion, to come together to serve the people of Roatan. Our team consisted of three ophthalmologists, their families, as
- [March 2024 Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2024-trip/) - I had the pleasure of joining the HISM team in March 2024. I had known Dr Bowers for over 30 years, having had the honor of being his residency director those many years ago. Somehow we had moved in and out of each others lives so many times over the years, both of us doing
- [August 2023 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/august-2023-missions-trip/) - Our 2023 August trip was such an unique experience as two eye surgeons and their families and friends joined together to provide eye care to Roatan, Honduras. Out of a team of 16 members, half were student volunteers ranging from the age of 9 to 13 years old, including myself. This trip truly proved that
- [Spring 2015 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/spring-2015-trip/) - Over 250 patients examined and 23 patients received sight-saving cataract surgery. We also dispensed many pair of prescription and non-prescription glasses donated by patients and friends.
- [March 2016 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2016-missions-trip/) - This was Dr. Solverson’s first non-tourist trip to Honduras. He had been there as a student several times 15 years prior with his wife, Jo, a nurse practitioner, and friends. At that time they had met Peggy Stranges, a nurse who started Clinica Esperanza and they promised to come back and help after they were
- [March 2017 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2017-trip/) - This was the teams\'s 13th visit to Roatan, working out of the Oak Ridge Community Clinic in the poorest area of the island. The team consisted of 12 hard working volunteers.
- [March 2017 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2017-missions-trip/) - Dr. Solverson and his wife, Jo, again led their small team of four to Roatan. Their team consisted of an artist, a Chicago police officer, a respiratory therapist, and an accountant. Lifelong friends, each team member has unique and personal ties to Roatan. Despite their team’s small size and non-medical background, they were able to
- [March 2019 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-9-16-2019-trip/) - March 9-16, 2019 Our group of twelve members worked hard to help provide eye examinations to over 150 people. This included 25 sight-restoring cataract surgeries and two ear surgeries by Dr. Tim Courville.
- [January 2018 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/january-2018-trip/) - 2018s trip was a little different in several ways. Our most urgent need was to replace two exam lanes of equipment (chair, stand, slit lamp for examinations).
- [May 2019 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/may-2019-missions-trip/) - In late May 2019, Dr. Paul Kang led his first team trip to Roatán, Honduras. The group comprised of two technicians, Victoria and myself, a surgical scrub technician, Vanessa, a medical doctor assistant, Dr. Amy Kang, and a surgical coordinator, Nina. We were situated at a little hotel on the coast of the island, an
- [January 2020 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/january-2020-missions-trip/) - Our team has just completed its 16th mission trip to Roatan, Honduras. It’s hard to believe this all started in 2005 with a small team of volunteers who, through friends with roots in Roatan and sharing in the commitment to give back, learned there was a significant population of indigent people with no access to
- [March 2022 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/march-2022-missions-trip/) - Our team had the privilege of returning to Roatan in March 2022 after missing last year due to the pandemic. Needless to say, everyone was excited including the many patients who have waited so long. Here I provide a very brief overview of our mission to date along with reflections from this most recent trip.
- [January 2023 Missions Trip](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/january-2023-missions-trip/) - It’s hard to believe it has been 18 years since our first trip to Roatan, Honduras. At that time, we were little more than a small team setting up mobile screening clinics to quantify the types of eye problems on this small island 30 miles off the mainland of Honduras. Not surprisingly we found a

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- [Dr. Paul Kang](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/dr-paul-kang/) - Dr. Paul Kang, a board-certified ophthalmologist in Washington DC, donates his time and skill to Health in Sight Mission community clinic in Roatán, Honduras.
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## Patient Stories

- [Patient 6](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-6/) - These two brothers both have bilateral juvenile cataracts, which have progressed to the point where they were now having difficulty with school work and regular kid activities. They are scheduled to have surgery on our next trip under general anesthesia.
- [Patient 5](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-5/) - This precious 4 year old girl had cataract surgery on her right eye during one of our medical mission trips several months before this photo. Prior to surgery, she didn’t even walk or interact with other children due to her severe vision loss. Now, she is a regular, active, kid who loves to run around
- [Patient 4](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-4/) - This patient was a nurse who could no longer keep her job due to poor vision from cataracts. With no job or insurance, she could not have afforded the surgery. It was through a friend who heard we were coming who called her and told her about us. She came not knowing if we could
- [Patient 3](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-3/) - This young lady had a chemical eye injury leaving her with a disfiguring scar on her eye. The cosmetic contact lens looks more natural and something she was very happy to receive (as evidenced by her smile).
- [Patient 2](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-2/) - This is one of our patients we were able to help. She has bilateral advanced cataracts that anyone can see (cloudiness in her pupil). After surgery, she was able to care for herself and become independent. We have so many stories like this every year we return.
- [Patient 1](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/patient-1/) - On our trip in March 2019, an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist (Dr. Tim Courville) joined our team to provide exams and surgeries. Here a young girl with a rare congenital ear defect was able to get it corrected. You can tell she was very happy to have this done!
- [John](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/john/) - As a single-eyed captain of a fishing boat, John was having trouble navigating the seas around Roatan. For years he was blind after a copper hook lodged inside the center of his eye creating a cataract. Hiding in the heart of his dense cataract was shiny piece of copper which was removed. He wanted it
- [Carmel](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/carmel/) - Carmel had a special form of skin cancer that was growing over the sight on her eye. She is now cancer free after it was surgically excised and treated with special chemotherapy eye drops. Carmel is a good example of a patient that required a multidisciplinary treatment over several months. Plus, her care required good
- [Janee](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/janee/) - This is Janee, a local girl we got to know well. She had a crippling illness (spinal atrophy). We brought her to the US for a formal evaluation at UVA and helped to provide her with a mobile chair and supports. Eventually the disease progressed and she passed away several years ago (in her early
- [Angelo](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/angelo/) - This is Angelo, a young patient with congenital cataracts. His surgery would have required general anesthesia, something we were not equipped to do. However, we were able to coordinate care with a local Honduran ophthalmologist on the mainland of Honduras and help provide funding to have both cataracts removed. His parents were so grateful that
- [Joseph](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/joseph/) - This is Joseph from our 2014 trip. Perhaps the most dramatic example of restored vision our team has ever experienced. Born deaf, mute and became blind early in his life, he could only communicate by touch. His sister was able to discern letters he would draw on her arm. He had to be led into
- [Noemi's Volunteer Story](https://www.healthinsightmission.org/patient-stories/noemis-volunteer-story/) - "More happy and super grateful patients like Pedro got cataract surgery! Also, more difficult news to deliver...one case that really hit home was that of an 18 year old girl (pictured right) with congenital cataracts who was devastated. It is definitely not by chance that I was there to cry with her, get to know her,

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