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Orbis Flying Eye Hospital comes to Hue

Orbis Flying Eye Hospital (FEH), a fully equipped ophthalmic hospital and teaching facility plane, landed in Hue city, central Thua Thien-Hue province on May 5.
Orbis Flying Eye Hospital (FEH), a fully equipped ophthalmic hospitaland teaching facility plane, landed in Hue city, central Thua Thien-Hueprovince on May 5.

The landing is part of a5-year project on improving eye care services for children across thecentral region which began in July 2014.

Whilestaying in Hue, the FEH will launch a 2-week training course for some150 medical personnel along with free check-ups and treatment for morethan 200 patients with eyesight problems.

According to FEH Medical Director Ahmed Gomaa, Orbis, an NGO dedicatedto vision treatment worldwide since 1982, has come to Vietnam since 2000and helped establish five eye care centres for children in Hanoi, Hue,Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Dinh.

Statistics from the World Health Organisation showed that there arecurrently 39 million blind people and 80 percent of the causes arecurable. Nineteen million children are suffering serious eye problems,including 1.4 million at high risk of blindness.-VNA
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