Bắc giang
Vietnamese doctors provide free eye treatment for Cambodians
Updated: 08:39, 16/11/2018
Doctors from Vietnam’s military hospital 175 and Ho Chi Minh City eye hospital, on November 14 and 15, offer free eye checkups and surgeries and medicines to hundreds of poor Cambodian patients.
Related news  |
The charity event, organized annually by the two hospitals since 2005, is taking place at the Royal Cambodian Army’s Preah Ket Mealea hospital. It is part of the Vietnam – Cambodia defence cooperation protocol for 2018.
 |
|
A Vietnamese doctor checks a patient's eyes. |
Nearly 50 doctors join the event, treating about 300 patients and giving medicines for some 200 others.
General Ly Sovann, Director of the Cambodian hospital, said the event is effective and meaningful.
Via such event and other cooperation programmes, doctors’ capacity at Preah Ket Mealea hospital has been improved, while Cambodian patients have received better treatment, he added.
(BGO) – The Action month (November) has been launched in all of city and districts in the northern province of Bac Giang from October 31 to November 2 in order to call for the whole resident to participate in health insurance (HI) in 2019.
Leading policymakers, scientists, and experts from Asia’s health sector joined representatives from the World Bank at the 11th Asia-Pacific Future Trends Forum in Hanoi on November 12 to discuss global trends on health-related policies and to seek solutions to current challenges facing the sector.
More than 200 photos and objects featuring impacts of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on the environment as well as human health are on display at an exhibition that kicked off in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on October 25.
(BGO) – The Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) on October 23 held a meeting to review two year implementation of the Direction No.08 dated on September 1, 2016 of Party Committee’s Standing Board about boosting up the coverage of health insurance in the province in the period of 2016 – 2020 and launching the Action month to call for people of all strata to participate in health insurance in 2019. The event was chaired by Le Anh Duong, Vice Chairman of the PPC.
(BGO) - The "Doctors and friends" club under UNESCO center for culture and sports development (Vietnam Union of UNESCO Associations) on October 21 held a humanitarian medical checkup in Thanh Van commune, Hiep Hoa district (Bac Giang province).
Source: VNA
Reader's comments (0)