Poor elderly people receive free eye surgeries

10:01, 26/01/2010

(ĐN)- Thong Nhat district’s Red Cross Association on Jan. 24 cooperated with HCM city Ophthalmology Association and Dau Giay General Hospital provided free eye surgeries to 65 poor cataract patients in the district.

(ĐN)- Thong Nhat district’s Red Cross Association on Jan. 24 cooperated with HCM city Ophthalmology Association and Dau Giay General Hospital provided free eye surgeries to 65 poor cataract patients in the district.

 

The surgery costs, at more than VND100 million, were funded by HCM city Ophthalmology Association.

 

In 2009, the Ophthalmology Association donated to offer free eye operations to nearly 200 poor cataract sufferers.

Reported by H.T