Alexandria doctor performs more than 100 eye surgeries during a week in Sierra Leone, West Africa

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Alexandria doctor performs more than 100 eye surgeries during a week in Sierra Leone, West Africa

SIERRA LEONE — Dr. Deb Ristvedt is no stranger to performing eye surgeries. She does it on a regular basis at Vance Thompson Vision in Alexandria. But that is not the only clinic she practices. Ristvedt recently returned from another trip to Sierra Leone in West Africa where she performed surgery on 100 eyeballs earlier this month at the hospital founded by her grandfather, Dr. Lowell Gess. Gess, who was an eye doctor in Alexandria for many year…