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Nerad Visits Vietnam for ORBIS
From October 26 through November 4, Jeffrey Nerad, MD visited the Eye Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City, South Vietnam to provide hands-on training to physicians as well as help screen patients for oculoplastic surgeries. This hospital-based trip is sponsored by ORBIS.
He discussed such topics as congenital deformities (eyelid coloboma, cyptophthalmos, and anophthalmos); contracted socket after radiation therapy, enucleation, failed reconstruction; poor scar of trauma, burns. Instruction also included lacrimal gland tumors, orbital tumors, and pseudotumors.
ORBIS’s cooperation in Vietnam aims to help the country protect and restore vision to underserved communities," said ORBIS Country Program Director, Thinh Nguyen. "We are actively working together with our local partners to strengthen the capacity of three regional eye care centers in North, Central and South Vietnam, develop and manage rural and pediatric eye care networks, and effective implementation of Vision 2020 Initiative: The Right to Sight in Vietnam."
According to ORBIS International, ORBIS’s long-term projects in Vietnam have trained 1,460 doctors, 9,820 nurses and community eye health workers in its inception in 2000. In addition, more than one million Vietnamese have received eye exams and 267,679 patients have received medical treatment and/or surgery through ORBIS-sponsored projects. See more at http://www.orbis.org/Default.aspx?cid=5715&lang=1
About ORBIS International: ORBIS International is a nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide. Visit www.orbis.org for more information.
