More than 200 domestic and foreign ophthalmologists are attending asymposium at the Hue Central Hospital in the central Thua Thien-Hueprovince to get updated on eye diseases and treatments.
Thebiennial workshop, the fifth of its kind in the imperial Hue city, isone of activities to mark the 120 th founding anniversary of thehospital - the first Western-styled hospital in Vietnam, and part of theongoing Hue Festival 2014.
The hospital’s Director Bui DucPhu said the symposium was first held in the hospital during the HueFestival in 2006 thanks to the assistance from the US’ Hawaiiophthalmology organisation. It has now become a regular event in the HueFestival.
The event from April 14-17 covers a number of thematic issues such as glaucoma, eye treatment and surgery.
According to the Vietnam Ophthalmological Society (VOS) and theVietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, the number of Vietnamesepeople suffering from blindness now accounts for 3.1 percent of thetotal population, while 15-40 percent of the population, including aboutthree million children, have refractive eye disorders.
Theophthalmological sector is striving to reduce the rate of blindness inpeople aged over 50 to 2.35 percent by 2019 and establish eye carecentres for children.-VNA
Thebiennial workshop, the fifth of its kind in the imperial Hue city, isone of activities to mark the 120 th founding anniversary of thehospital - the first Western-styled hospital in Vietnam, and part of theongoing Hue Festival 2014.
The hospital’s Director Bui DucPhu said the symposium was first held in the hospital during the HueFestival in 2006 thanks to the assistance from the US’ Hawaiiophthalmology organisation. It has now become a regular event in the HueFestival.
The event from April 14-17 covers a number of thematic issues such as glaucoma, eye treatment and surgery.
According to the Vietnam Ophthalmological Society (VOS) and theVietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, the number of Vietnamesepeople suffering from blindness now accounts for 3.1 percent of thetotal population, while 15-40 percent of the population, including aboutthree million children, have refractive eye disorders.
Theophthalmological sector is striving to reduce the rate of blindness inpeople aged over 50 to 2.35 percent by 2019 and establish eye carecentres for children.-VNA
