Apostle of sight

By Dorothy Clarke Wilson

Subjects: Physicians, Biography, Ophthalmologists, Medical Missionaries, Christian life, Cataract Extraction, Eye Diseases

Description: Victor Clough Rambo (1894-May 23, 1987) was an American medical missionary and ophthalmologist who worked in India from 1924 to 1974 for the United Christian Missionary Society, of which the former Foreign Christian Missionary Society became part in 1920. In India, Rambo served as the medical director of the Christian Hospital Mungeli and initiated the development of eye camps, groups of medical surgeons that visited towns, set up cataract removal stations, and restored sight to the partially blind through eye surgeries. Under Rambo's leadership, the hospital conducted over 150 eye camps in over 25 villages. It is estimated that the implementation of these eye camps helped restore sight to over 40,000 patients. - Wikipedia.