Those patients were recommended by Catholic and Christian churches and local healthcare system, and proved that help needed. Patients were screened at Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital to ensure proper prescription of cataract surgery and preoperative guidance.
On 19 July 2014, Eye Charity Vietnam and representative of Ho Chi Minh Eye Hospital came to Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital early and had a friendly meeting with the doctors, nurses and patients before start.
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Patients rested in Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital's patient rooms to wait for operations and check afterward.
Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital is a specialty hospital with most contemporary equipments in Tay Nguyen area and has many highly skilled doctors.
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Nurses took care of patients after surgery and provided them medicines and post surgery guidance.
Representative of Eye Charity Vietnam gave a small gift including Mosquito repel nest and eye protecting glasses to the patients.
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After the event, patients came back home in the same day, all operation have been done successfully and brought eyesight back to 96 people.
We grateful thank all donors, doctors, nurses and volunteers, who helped us organised this event successfully. We also thank Ms Thien Nga of Tien Phong newspaper and Doctor Duong Dinh Hung for their connection to help us organize the event in Tay Nguyen area.
Link on press about this program (Vietnamese only):
Tây Nguyên thay thuỷ tinh thể miễn phí cho 100 bệnh nhân
Tin vắn: Thay thuỷ tinh thể miễn phí
List of patients first event:
