To study the viability of manual small incision cataract surgery for effective rehabilitation of cataract patients in community eye care settings. A randomised controlled clinical trial; to compare manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) with conventional extracapsular cataract surgery (ECCE- PCIOL) with respect to safety, cost-effectiveness, surgical time and patient satisfaction and visual function. In a masked randomised controlled clinical trial, 741 patients with operable cataract were randomly assigned to receive one of the two treatment groups. 706 of the 741 patients...