Australia helps Vietnamese cataract patients

As many as 5,500 patients across the country have been given cataract surgery and screening for refractive errors under aAUD45 million (USD44.1 million) Avoidable Blindness Initiative funded by the Australian Government in the Asia-Pacific region.

Three hundred eye doctors and technicians have also been trained under the programme.

The figures were released by the National Eye Hospital at a recent workshop on preventing blindness in Hanoi recently, which drew eye doctors and experts from Australia, Cambodia and Vietnam.