06/07/2026
After completing his optometry internship at Khairun Nisa Eye Hospital in January 2026, Faraz Ali returned to his hometown in Usta Muhammad, Balochistan, with a vision to serve communities that had long remained without access to eye care.
Today, he has established a primary eye care center named serving more than 100 villages and an estimated population of 700,000–800,000 people.
In the first days of operation alone, Faraz witnessed the immense need for eye care, identifying numerous cases of refractive errors, uncorrected glaucoma, traumatic cataracts, and other conditions that had previously gone undiagnosed.
While he treats the minor concerns and refractive error in his clinic, he is working closely with the team at Khairun Nisa Eye Hospital. Faraz ensures that patients requiring advanced diagnosis, treatment, or surgery are referred promptly to KNEH. Through continuous coordination with the hospital staff, his patients receive timely support and access to the specialized care they need, strengthening the link between community-based primary eye care and tertiary eye care services.
His journey reflects the true purpose of the internship program at Khairun Nisa Eye Hospital: not only to train professionals, but to empower them to bring quality eye care to underserved communities while building a sustainable referral network that ensures no patient is left behind.
Because when training meets purpose, one individual can create lasting change for hundreds of thousands of lives.