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Preserving Sight for Premature Infants in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

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.

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

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.

Media release: Flying Eye Hospital 2019 in Hue

Orbis Flying Eye Hospital Returns to Vietnam for the Seventh Time
to Conduct a Three-week Regional Ophthalmic Training Project
This training project aims to strengthen the capacity of eye health professionals
in Central Vietnam.

Vietnam: Young Tam saved from a life of blindness

Tam from Quy Nhon, Vietnam, struggled with his vision from an early age. But thanks to your support, and the work of our Vietnam country office and partners we were able to give Tam his sight back without any cost to his family. Tam was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts and had it not been spotted in time, he would have been blind permanently.

Vietnam: Phuong no longer teased at school

Phuong from Hoai Nhon, Vietnam, was three months old when her family first spotted her crossed-eyes. After years of wrongly being told that glasses would fix her poor vision, an Orbis-supported school screening program finally gave little Phuong & her anxious mother hope for the future.