Barriers to cataract surgeries as perceived by visually impaired 50 years and older cataract blind participants of Nepal survey for rapid assessment of avoidable blindness

• Ranjan Shah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4855-8751

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• Sailesh Kumar Mishra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rajiv Khandekar,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Parikshit Gogate ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: parikshitgogate@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Community Eye Care Foundation, Dr. Gogate’s Eye Clinic, Pune, India, Department of Ophthalmology, D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, India, School of Health Sciences, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-5463

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• Yuddha Dhoj Sapkota,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, South East Asia office, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Reeta Gurung,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Nepal Eye Program, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Mohan Krishna Shrestha,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Nepal Eye Program, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Islay Mactaggart,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Ian McCormick,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Brish Bahadur Shahi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Ministry of Social Development, Karnali, Nepal

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• Matthew Burton

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliation International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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