Doctor keeps vision alive in Heilongjiang

Nikola Vasilyevich Dusan has received more than 100,000 patients with eye problems in China over the past 20 years, performing operations on nearly 2,000.

The 70-year-old ophthalmologist has been the chief expert at Daqing Ophthalmic Hospital in Heilongjiang province since 2000, after retiring from the ophthalmology department of the People's Friendship University of Russia in Moscow.

In 2009, Dusan won the Friendship Award by the Chinese government, the highest honor for a foreign expert in China. In the same year, he was invited to attend the ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.