Flying Eye Hospital touches down in Vietnam’s Can Tho City for sight-saving project

Under this project, Orbis looks to enhance the local eye care professionals’ capabilities to treat eye diseases common among local people such as cataract, strabismus in children, and glaucoma. Pham Kim Ngoc, country director of Orbis Vietnam, said the operations of the Flying Eye Hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft is sponsored by FedEx, an international freight service provider. Inside an operating room on the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. Photo: Tuoi TreParticipants in Orbis eye care training courses can practice in a simulation training center of the Orbis Eye Flying Hospital. Photo: Tuoi TreA five-year-old girl residing in Soc Trang Province, southern Vietnam, underwent an eyelid surgery performed in the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital.