A settler in Walawala village, sesheke District, Western Province has restored her eyesight after surgery.   The patient is among 74 patients who presented to the hospital with cataracts and booked for surgeries.   A cataract is often a clouding in the eye’s lens that will disable or change the passage of light into the eye.   According to the narration by the client, she lost her vision and went blind during Dr.Kenneth Kaunda's regime. She turned up at the Walawala Rural Health Centre (RHC) when the ZFDS medical team on an outreach programme in the district camped at the facility.   After undergoing a successful operation at Yeta General Hospital (YGH), she expressed happiness that she was able to see again. "I now can see again! I can see people around me she exclaimed.   Another patient whose vision has been repaired, a female aged 20 from Senanga District, in the same Province, explained that she had lost sight in her left eye during her childhood due to injury and remained with one.   Two years later, the remaining eye with time lost vision resulting in her abandoning her small business that she was running as she could not see.   "I lost hope of seeing again and I was worried that I was going to die blind.   I am so very happy, that the only eye I am reminded of can see. My life goes back to normal living," she said.   Cataract surgeon Dr Oliver Chenga disclosed that since Sunday,26th May 2024 a total of 144 patients have been attended to and vision repaired.   Dr Chenga explained that the majority of the patients presented at the hospital with cataracts are above the age of 50.   He attributed the blinding condition to be common among such age groups due to age.