Meeting marks World Sight Day, Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week
A meeting was held at the Eye Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 8 in response to World Sight Day and the Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week.
A meeting was held at the Eye Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 8 in response to World Sight Day and the Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week. (Photo: VNA)
Ba Ria - Vung Tau (VNA) - A meeting was held at the Eye Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 8 in responseto World Sight Day and the Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week.
Speaking at the event, Director of the provincial Health Department PhamMinh An said a survey has revealed that 27.7 percent of local people aged above50 face vision impairment or blindness, with the leading cause being cataracts.
Ba Ria - Vung Tau has also seen an increase in the number of peoplesuffering from non-communicable eye diseases such as refractive error, diabeticretinopathy, and age-related macular degeneration, An added.
He took the occasion to highlight the efforts of the local health sectorto effectively prevent and control eye diseases. The province has built aneye-care network with a far-reaching impact across local communes, wards,villages, and hamlets, while taking advantage of technology transfer and applyingscience and technology in treatment, he said.
At the meeting, the hospital also received donations from businesses andorganisations for its operations and research.
Fifty students from the Tan Hung Secondary School in Ba Ria city with refractiveerror were given free glasses and check-ups by doctors from the hospital.
World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the secondThursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and visionimpairment. It takes place on October 8 this year, with the theme “Hope InSight”.
꧃ The Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology has organised its Asia-PacificEye Care Week since 2012 to raise public awareness about eye care and eyehealth in the region./.
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A meeting was held at the Eye Hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau on October 8 in response to World Sight Day and the Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week. (Photo: VNA) 
