Binh Dinh (VNA) – A project fundedby Orbis Vietnam to develop children’s eye care services in the southerncentral province of Binh Dinh has obtained good results that are beyondexpectations, heard a recent meeting.
The project from 2014 to 2019, provided withover 1.2 million USD by Orbis Vietnam, aims to help reduce the rate ofblindness and deterioration of vision in children of Binh Dinh and neighbouringprovinces through enhancing the targeted group’s access to eye care services.
At the review meeting on December 19, Directorof the Binh Dinh provincial Department of Health Le Quang Hung said thanks tothe project, the children’s department at the Binh Dinh Eye Hospital has beenput into use, providing sufficient eye examination, treatment and surgeryservices for child patients in the province and the nearby Quang Ngai, Phu Yen,Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces.
Particularly, the Binh Dinh General Hospital hasbecome the first in the southern central and Central Highlands regions to beable to provide screening and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity.
He noted this project has given training todoctors of the province’s eye and general hospitals and helped Binh Dinh form acomprehensive children’s eye care network from the community to medicalestablishments.
More than 11,400 children have received eyedisease and disorder treatment (equivalent to 478 percent of the target),260,000 have benefited from eye disease screening in the community (1,000percent of the target), and 1,400 medical workers of communes and schools havebeen trained in eye examination, Hung added.
Director of Orbis Vietnam Tran Thi Thanh Huongsaid all of the targets for the project in Binh Dinh have exceededexpectations, noting that through this project, the local medical staff are nowcapable of treating and conducting surgery for complex eye diseases inchildren./.
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