The patient is conscious. The whole operation is local anesthesia. Instead of a scalpel laser beams. They penetrate right through the cornea of the eye, dissolve the cataract clouded lens. And then the surgeon replaces it with an artificial, which will allow to restore clarity of vision. Work jewelry. All calculations to one hundredth millimeters takes over your computer.

Minulla Absalamov, head of the first microsurgical Department of the Ufa research Institute of eye diseases: "Femtosecond laser opened the cavity of the lens. He also helped to make the separation of the cataract. This, in my opinion, reminiscent of what robots are quietly taken away part of our work."

Surgery without blood, sutures and, as she says the patient, who after 15 minutes of smiling out of the operating room, without pain. Six months ago, Maya Ozerov has already undergone a similar operation on the right eye. Now, 65-year-old woman ready to abandon points.

Maya Ozerov, patient: "I came home, opened, watched TV. I saw the bright colors. So beautiful. So colorful. And I think:God, how to live well when they see it. And the blind was."

For such operations are the units of hospitals in the country. Because the Ufa Institute of eye diseases with a desire to see the world in bright colors patients travel from all over Russia and even CIS.
What is happening in the operating of the Ufa Institute of eye diseases, on the alert, with more than 700 ophthalmologists from around the globe. The online broadcast was organized for the participants of the International conference "East – West", which for the 6th year in a row, taking Ufa. Here, the Europeans and the representatives of States of the SCO and BRICS – the luminaries of medicine know about human eye if not all, almost all.
How to make the light at the end of the tunnel loomed and blind from birth, speak different languages. On the sidelines of the audible speech in Hindi, Kazakh, German, English. Guests of the forum believe that the political situation in the world is not a reason to destroy the deep scientific relations.
Rüdiger Korff, ophthalmologist: "Politics and science are completely different aspects of our life, they may be connected, but affect each other does not have. This is my second time in Ufa and, I think, not the last."
Timari Juice Mohammed, Soji, ophthalmologist: "I think, without the exchange of experience of development in medicine. Now an Ufa in India is well know due to the upcoming summit, so I decided that I should come and see it for myself."
Muharram Bikbov, Director of the Ufa research Institute of eye diseases: "it is Interesting that we came to the head of the ophthalmology service of Ukraine. The fact that ophthalmologists – people peaceful occupations. There are no problems. We speak almost different languages, but we have one goal".
Who came to study, to learn from, someone to teach. Tomorrow ophthalmologists from abroad will rise over the operating table. Will return vision to those who seemingly have lost him forever.