Free eye examination for impoverished people in Yen Bai

Doctors are performing a cataract surgery. (Photo: VNA)

Yen Bai (VNA) – Seventy in the northern mountainous
province of Yen Bai received and at Yen Bai
General Hospital from April 16-17.

The examinations and surgeries were performed by doctors from the Central Eye
Hospital and Yen Bai General Hospital for locals who served the nation and came
from policy beneficiary households and poor families in Nghia Lo town and Van
Chan, Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai districts.

Among the patients, 57 underwent cataract operations, most of whom came from
Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai districts.

Yen Bai is among 30 provinces receiving free phacoemulsification surgery in 2019.
to restore vision for the patients.

This is a practical programme for the impoverished, helping them improve their
health and stabilise their lives. -VNA