Cataract surgery for 100,000 people in this year
SURGERY FOR 100,000 CATARACT SUFFERERS THIS YEAR
Ha Noi, Feb. 4 (VNA) -- Viet Nam plans to provide cataract surgery for 100,000 people this year.
The target was set at a workshop to discuss blindness prevention and ophthalmology in Vung Tau city, southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
The workshop, which drew 230 professors, doctors and ophthalmologists nationwide, prove a venue for surgeons to exchange their experiences in applying the most advanced technique in eye surgery and plan to prevent blindness in 2001 and the next five years.
The World Health Organization estimates that of 1,352,800 blind people aged from 50 in Viet Nam, 703,300 lost their sight to cataracts. But the country has only 810 ophthalmologists capable of undertaking the necessary corrective surgery.--VNA
