(CNN) Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul will continue performing eye surgery if elected president, he told CNN on Friday.

"I jokingly said we're going to turn the Lincoln bedroom into a surgery suite," he told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day."

The Kentucky senator recently came back from a mission trip to Haiti with the University of Utah, where he said the group performed 200 cataract surgeries, adding that he hopes his next mission trip will be performing surgeries on Indian reservations next year.

Paul said he still practices medicine in Kentucky for people who don't have money or insurance.

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