The Fred Hollows Foundation from Australia will grant almost 547,700 USD to provide operations and care for eye patients in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.
The project will conduct surgery on at least 1,500 patients of cataract and other eye-related diseases, said Chief of the Thua Thien-Hue People’s Committee Office Phan Ngoc Tho.
It will also improve the quality of eye care in the province by enhancing the professionalism of health workers and upgrading equipment at eye hospitals and a number of commune-level infirmaries.
As part of the project, as many as 35,000 local pupils will be examined and provided with counselling about eye refractions. Of them, around 1,000 poor pupils will be presented with glasses to treat their eye refractions.
The two-year project is estimated to cost nearly 602,500 USD, with the rest contributed by the provincial budget.
The Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, whose vision was for a world where no one is needlessly blind.
Treatment of cataract blindness has come a long way in Vietnam since Professor Fred Hollows first visited in 1992. Fred had been invited by the government to demonstrate modern surgery techniques with local doctors.
As part of the Vietnam Blindness Prevention Programm, the foundation currently works in the provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam , Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Vinh Long, Dak Lak, Quang Ngai, Thua Thien-Hue and Da Nang city./.
The project will conduct surgery on at least 1,500 patients of cataract and other eye-related diseases, said Chief of the Thua Thien-Hue People’s Committee Office Phan Ngoc Tho.
It will also improve the quality of eye care in the province by enhancing the professionalism of health workers and upgrading equipment at eye hospitals and a number of commune-level infirmaries.
As part of the project, as many as 35,000 local pupils will be examined and provided with counselling about eye refractions. Of them, around 1,000 poor pupils will be presented with glasses to treat their eye refractions.
The two-year project is estimated to cost nearly 602,500 USD, with the rest contributed by the provincial budget.
The Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by work of the late Professor Fred Hollows, whose vision was for a world where no one is needlessly blind.
Treatment of cataract blindness has come a long way in Vietnam since Professor Fred Hollows first visited in 1992. Fred had been invited by the government to demonstrate modern surgery techniques with local doctors.
As part of the Vietnam Blindness Prevention Programm, the foundation currently works in the provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam , Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Vinh Long, Dak Lak, Quang Ngai, Thua Thien-Hue and Da Nang city./.
