Doctors from Vietnam’s military hospital 175 and Ho Chi Minh City eye hospital, on November 14 and 15, offer free eye checkups and surgeries and medicines to hundreds of poor Cambodian patients.
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.
Doctors and nurses from the Army Hospital 175 and the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital offered free eye check-ups, surgeries and medicines to Cambodian residents in Phnom Penh on October 6.
Doctors from the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital worked with their Lao counterparts to provide free eye examinations and surgeries to war veterans and the disadvantaged with cataracts in Laos.
More than 60 voluntary doctors and nurses from the 175 Hospital under the Ministry of National Defence and the Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital are providing free eye surgeries and eye tests for soldiers, poor people and Overseas Vietnamese in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from September 21-24.
Nearly 30,000 high school students in four localities will receive free eye
check-up, consulting services and medicines under a programme launched on March
9.