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Exposing bogus blindness treatments

BBC Arabic’s Ramadan Younes shares the story behind his investigation into bogus treatments for the incurable eye disease retinitis pigmentosa, or RP.

BBC Arabic’s recent film ‘Blind Faith’ exposes the clinics offering bogus, and potentially dangerous, treatments to people living with an incurable eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. The reporter is Ramadan Younes, who's based in Egypt. He also has RP and is visually impaired, and underwent one of these treatments himself.

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(Photo: BBC Arabic's Ramadan Younes. Credit: BBC)

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