Hanoi (VNA) – The PrimeMinister has approved the national strategy on blindness prevention until 2020with a vision to 2030.
The goal of the strategy is toboost people’s access to preventive services like early detection, treatmentand recovery of eye functions, reducing the rate of avoidable blindness.
The strategy aims to reduce therate of blindness to below 4.5 people per 1000 people, increase the rate of cataractsurgery to 2.5 people per 1,000 people and increase the rate of people withdiabetes examined for eye diseases to over 45 percent.
The responding rates for thosegoals by 2030 will be below 4 people per 1,000 people for blindness, 3.5 peopleper 1,000 people for cataract surgery and 75 percent for those with diabetes monitoredfor eye diseases.
To achieve the goals, thestrategy will improve awareness and responsibility of the government at alllevels, sectors, organisations and people for blindness prevention and theimpact of blindness towards health and productivity.
The strategy also aims to build policieson blindness prevention, control the main reasons for blindness, complete thenetwork of eye-caring services, and ensure an eqꦑual approach among children,women, the elderly, and the disabled.-VNA
The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital said it will provide free eye check-ups and operations for people in Can Tho city and some other Mekong Delta localities.
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ietnam has responded to World Diabetes Day (November 14) with a ceremony focusing on the importance of the early detection and timely treatment to prevent dangerous complications.
About 150 patients with cataracts in Ninh Thuan province have received free surgeries provided by the Asia Prevention of Blindness Association (APBA) and the province’s eye hospital.
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The groundbreaking ceremony took place one day after the VNVC Vaccine JS Company and Sanofi Group exchanged cooperation documents on vaccine production technology transfer under the witness of State President Luong Cuong and French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
A person gets eye examination. (Source: VNA)
