Health
Free eye examination for impoverished people in Yen Bai
Seventy poor patients in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai received free eye check-ups and cataract surgery at Yen Bai General Hospital from April 16-17.
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Da Nang: Children get free eye surgeries
The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) from Australia will provide free eye surgeries for 50 children in Da Nang and an eye screening programme.
Society
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia diplomatic ties establishment marked
A wide range of activities will be held in Ho Chi Minh City to mark the establishment of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and its two neighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia.
Health
Can Tho: Flying eye hospital provides treatment for children
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.
Society
Assistance offered to more than 30 million children
The National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) has mobilised more than 5.5 trillion VND (243.3 million USD), goods and volunteers to support some 30 million children across the country.
Health
Dutch organisations support eye hospital in Vinh Long
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.
Society
Vietnam offers eye check-ups to Cambodian people
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.
Society
Children in Ba Ria–Vung Tau, Thai Nguyen receive support
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.
Health
Orbis flying hospital to give free eye care to Mekong Delta people
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.
Society
Four million elderly without health insurance: conference
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam urged relevant ministries and agencies to take measures to raise health and social insurance coverage for the elderly to the country’s average.
Health
World Sight Day observed in Vietnam
The Hanoi-based Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO) held a meeting in response to the World Sight Day themed “Eye Care for All” on October 8.
Health
Vietnam supports impoverished in Laos
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.
Health
Vietnam children’s blindness rate fourth highest in Asia
About 3 million out of 22.7 million Vietnamese children are facing
weak eyesight, while 23,000 of them suffer from bilateral blindness,
representing the fourth highest rate in the Asian region.
Health
Hanoi: 10,000 people to be screened for visual impairment
The Hanoi Department of Health in coordination with Helen Keller
International (HKI) will provide eye check-ups for some 10,000 people
aged 45 or more in the capital city’s Quoc Oai district from now to
September 2015.
Health
Australian-funded vision project continues to benefit southerners
The Department of Health of the southern province of Ba Ria –
Vung Tau on July 30 launched the second phase of an eye care project
funded by the Australian Government.
Free eye surgeries for Tra Vinh poor patients
Some 350 eye patients in remote areas of Tra Vinh province recently
received free surgeries as part of the Mekong Delta locality’s progamme
supporting visually impaired low-income people.
Health
Doctors fear lack of glaucoma awareness
Up to 94 percent of people receiving eye check-ups are unaware of the
effects of glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, heard a meeting
held in Hanoi on March 11 to mark the World Glaucoma Week.
Health
When ophthalmologists are all eyes on urban light
The shortage of ophthalmologists (eye doctors) at district level makes
it difficult to achieve the aim of reducing the rate of blindness to
less than 0.3 percent of the population by 2020.
Free eye care to Lam Dong’s poor patients
Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF), an Australian non-governmental
organisation, has provided free eye check-ups to 530 poor patients in
Don Duong district, the Central Highland province of Lam Dong.
Activities mark World Sight Day in Hanoi
A series of activities will be held in Hanoi on Oct. 13 to mark World Sight Day 2011, themed “Bright eyes for children”.
