(ĐN)- Since the beginning of the year, Dong Nai Red Cross Association provided free eye surgeries with a total cost of over VND1.4 billion to 298 poor patients across the province.
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(ĐN)- Since the beginning of the year, Dong Nai Red Cross Association provided free eye surgeries with a total cost of over VND1.4 billion to 298 poor patients across the province.
Over the past five of years, the association has given eye check-ups to 9,600 people; more than 6,700 of them received free surgeries totaling VND33.9 billion as part of the association’s progam supporting visually impaired low-income people.
Chairwoman Do Thi Phuoc Thien of Dong Nai Red Cross Association said that the program “Bringing Sight to the Disadvantaged Blind” aims to help poor patients with eye-diseases integrate into their community with more hope for a better life.
In the coming time, the association will continue to cooperated with related units to provide free treatments to the poor.
Reported by S.T
