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Celebrating 20 years of Cybersight

Cybersight, our award-winning telemedicine and e-learning platform, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Orbis is announcing the latest innovation in global ophthalmic telemedicine: the launch of the Cybersight mobile app.
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Six years later, Tien can still see everything

August 10, 2023

Tien received sight-saving surgery on board the Flying Eye Hospital in 2017 during a project in Can Tho, Vietnam. In 2023, she returned to the plane for a follow-up exam where an Orbis doctor expressed "100% satisfaction" with her vision.

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Vietnam Flying Eye Hospital Project: A sight-saving success

July 12, 2023

Orbis’s Flying Eye Hospital returned to Can Tho, Vietnam in May for our first in-person surgical project on board the aircraft since the beginning of the pandemic – and we’re thrilled with the outcome of this extraordinary program!

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Han finally gets the care she needs thanks to Orbis supporters

May 19, 2023

Five-year-old Han from Can Tho City, Vietnam is the first patient to step on board the Flying Eye Hospital for surgery since the start of the pandemic. After an earlier procedure to restore her vision was unsuccessful, she finally got the care she needed when the plane landed near her hometown.

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Qualified refraction services are made available in Dong Nai province through Orbis-OnSemi Conductor project

March 07, 2023

The project “Good sight, Good life”, implemented in Bien Hoa City of Dong Nai province, sponsored by Onsemi, aims at addressing visual impairments due to uncorrected refractive errors of the locals with particular focus on children and marginalized people through comprehensive, accessible and quality eye care /refraction services provision.

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STRENGTHENING CAPACITY FOR LOCAL STAFF IN GLAUCOMA EXMANINATION AND TREATMENT

February 24, 2023

Aiming at providing support in building capacity of local eye care staff and examination and treatment of glaucoma, Orbis has partnered with Hanoi Medical University and Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine to implement a project namely "Strengthen the glaucoma examination and treatment services" in Vietnam.

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Orbis and On Semiconductor Join Forces With Partner For Quality Refraction Services In Dong Nai

January 31, 2020

Dong Nai, Vietnam (21 January 2020) - Orbis International in Vietnam, ON Semiconductor and Dong Nai Department of Health, Dong Nai Provincial General Hospital showed their joint commitment by collaborating to bring about good eye health for the people through project “Good Sight Good Life” on January 21, 2020.

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Preserving Sight for Premature Infants in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

October 11, 2019

For young doctor Le Thi Mong Kieu from Can Tho Pediatric Hospital, providing screening and treatment for Retinopathy of Premature (ROP) is now a skill she carries out with confidence, but this wasn’t always the case.

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MEDIA RELEASE: VIETJET AND ORBIS FORGE COMMITMENT ON BLINDNESS PREVENTION IN VIETNAM

September 26, 2019

Hue, Vietnam (21 August 2019) - Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company (VietJet) and Orbis Singapore (Orbis) commit to join forces to implement an eye care program for blindness across Vietnam, contributing to the pursuance of Vietnam’s Sustainable Development Goals for people’s health and well-being.

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