Flying hospital to bring back sights to 75 more patients

07/04/2008 -- 10:37 AM

HCM City (VNA) - An additional 75 patients in Ho Chi Minh City will be provided with free eye operations performed by doctors onboard the Orbis Flying Hospital which arrived in the city on April 6. Forty ophthalmologists from the US , Canada , India and Australia will also transfer professional techniques to some 300 surgeons and nurses from northern and southern hospitals. Earlier, the mobile hospital conducted free eye check-ups and treatment for poor patients and conduct training to local eye doctors during its two-week stay in central Danang city. The Flying Eye Hospital is an initiative set up by the US-based non-profit organisation Orbis International. Orbis began working on blind prevention and treatment in Viet Nam in 1996 and currently has partners in 26 cities and provinces carrying out long-term eye care projects. Vietnam ’s blind rate is estimated at 0.63 percent or equal to 500,000 people.-Enditem
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