76 poor patients to get free eye operations

10:06, 23/06/2009

(ĐN)- On June 20, HCM city Ophthalmology Association in cooperation with the Military Hospital 175 provided free eye check-ups to more than 400 poor people in Xuan Loc district.

(ĐN)- On June 20, HCM city Ophthalmology Association in cooperation with the Military Hospital 175 provided free eye check-ups to more than 400 poor people in Xuan Loc district. 76 patients diagnosed with eye diseases such as cataract, blindness will be hospitalized and received surgeries free-of-charge at the district’s General Hospital on June 24.

 

Eye surgeries cost around VND76 million, funded by Dai-ichi Vietnam Life Insurance Company.

Reported by N.H