Vietnamese physicians bring light to over 200 Lao eye patients

• American surgeon helps poor Vietnamese patients face the world
• HCM City association brings light to 500,000 poor patients
• Free clinic in Can Tho helps poor patients
• PSFs of Ba Don take patients to hospital through flood water

All the surgeries were performed on the Phaco technique at the Military Hospital 103 and in the Laos Eye Center, in Laos.

A doctor from the delegation checking eyes for a Lao patient.

The Lao patients also received free medications, free lodging and travel costs as well as free consultation services. The HCMC Eye Hospital also donated sufficient funds and medical supplies for the two Lao medical institutions to conduct 69 surgeries on Lao patients, who live in remote areas and could not come in time for this free surgery dirve.

The Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital’s doctors also trained and granted certificates to 6 Lao physicians on the Phaco technique.

Lao patients waiting for surgery.

The free surgery drive for Lao patient is part of the cooperation program signed between the HCMC Eye Hospital and the Lao Central Eye Hospital and the Vientiane Health Department in conducting Phaco technique-based surgeries to Lao patients and in training the Phaco technique for Lao physicians.