The summer volunteer youth campaign 2020 of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) of HCM City entered its final day on August 16 with various activities for children in 24 districts and wards at a cost of nearly 1 billion VND (43,400 USD).
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.
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.
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 mobilised more than 5.5 trillion VND (243.3 million USD), goods and volunteers to support some 30 million children across the country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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