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A meeting was held at the Eye Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 8 in response to World Sight Day and the Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week.

A project funded by Orbis Vietnam to develop children’s eye care services in the southern central province of Binh Dinh has obtained good results that are beyond expectations, heard a recent meeting.

Orbis International, an non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to saving the sight worldwide, on August 21 inaugurated its Orbis Flying Eye Hospital at Phu Bai International Airport, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

The eye hospital of the northern province of Son La provided free eye care services for nearly 1,000 students in Thuan Chau district and Son La city during December 3-4.

The number of children suffering from refraction is increasing in Vietnam, particularly in big cities where nearly 40 percent of children aged between 6-15 years old have contracted eye refractive defects.

The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) from Australia will provide free eye surgeries for 50 children in Da Nang and an eye screening programme.

The Standard Chartered Bank (Vietnam) Limited has raised more than 74,000 USD from the “Cycling for tomorrow light” programme for its eye care programme entitled “Light is belief.”

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has applauded achievements recorded by the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO), known as the Central Eye Hospital, especially the efforts made by it and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to eradicate trachoma in Vietnam.

As many as 500 policy beneficiaries and poor people in the central province of Quang Nam received free cataract surgeries at the provincial General Hospital on June 18.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital on May 30 began a training course for medical staff of the General Hospital and Eye Hospital of central Binh Dinh province.

The 2017 Orbis Flying Eye Hospital Programme was launched in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on May 8 with the two main partners of Can Tho Eye and Odonto-Stomatology Hospital and Pediatrics Hospital.

The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has raised more than 5.5 trillion VND (241.8 million USD) and thousands of tonnes of gifts for some 30 million children since it was founded 25 years ago.

Local administrations should play a greater role in the national strategy on blindness prevention, head of the national steering committee for blindness control Nguyen Viet Tien said.

An eye examination and treatment ward funded by the Netherlands’ Eye Care Foundation and De Heus company was inaugurated on February 27 at the Ophthalmology Hospital in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long.

Experts have warned that HCM City and the Mekong Delta region are witnessing a worrying uptick in the number of diabetic patients, and with this, a heightened risk of diabetic eye diseases.

Diabetes patients in HCM City and Mekong Delta provinces will be provided with free eye care under a project jointly funded by the international organisation Orbis and the World Diabetes Foundation.

The 2016 national ophthalmological conference took place in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on October 20, attracting more than 1,400 domestic and foreign delegates.

About 20,000 students at primary and secondary schools in the southern province of Ba Ria–Vung Tau are expected to benefit from an eye care project.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital said it will provide free eye check-ups and operations for people in Can Tho city and some other Mekong Delta localities.

A workshop on improving access to eye care services for people with disabilities took place in Hanoi on March 18.