BBC reporter’s journey to regain his sight and doctors selling ‘dummy cures’

  • Ramadan Younes
  • BBC News Arabic

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More than two million people worldwide have retinitis pigmentosa, but for most of them there is no cure

Doctors around the world provide false hopes and false cures to millions of people suffering from a terminal disease that can lead to complete loss of vision. BBC correspondent Ramadan Younes, who personally suffers from the disease, conducted a secret investigation to expose these doctors.

I lay in the hospital for five days in complete darkness, my eyes covered with bandages, imagining what my life would be like if I regained my lost sight.

In 2013, I traveled to Beijing, China, following reading regarding a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disease. Six years earlier, I had been diagnosed with this condition and I knew I might lose my sight completely one day.

I raised $13,000 to pay for a treatment that I was told would improve my vision and change my life.

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