A Nepali doctor has restored the sight of man who was blind for 30 years– a victim of U.S. nuclear tests on a small group of islands in the Pacific, AFP reported from Majuro.

“He is only 40, but he thought there was nothing he could do about it,” said eye and ear specialist Suraj Sakya, who carried out the surgery. Sakya was brought to the Marshall Islands  by the government to provide medical care to locals affected by  American nuclear tests in the 1950s.

Sakya’s “medical facility” is a small one room dispensary in Mejatto atoll, part of the scattered Marshall Islands.