85 poor patients to get free eye surgeries

09:09, 18/09/2010

(ĐN)- Recently, Long Khanh town’s Red Cross Chapter in cooperation with Long Khanh Regional General Hospital provided free eye check-ups to more than 800 poor people, policy beneficiaries and disabled people living in the town.

(ĐN)- Recently, Long Khanh town’s Red Cross Chapter in cooperation with Long Khanh Regional General Hospital provided free eye check-ups to more than 800 poor people, policy beneficiaries and disabled people living in the town.

As a result, 85 of them who  are cataract sufferers and trichiasis patients will get free eye operations at the hospital on Sept 24-25.

The eye operations is part of the program called “Bringing Sight to the Disadvantaged Blind”, which was launched to help poor patients with eye-diseases integrate into their community with more hope for a better life

Reported by M. A