Working towards sustainable eye care at district hospitals in Viet Nam
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The shortage of adequate facilities and qualified staff at district and community level means that tertiary eye care services in Viet Nam have been overburdened by high volumes of patients, not all of whom needed tertiary-level care. In Quang Nam province, an additional challenge is the mountainous terrain, which makes travel very difficult. To help reduce the pressure on tertiary centres and increase access to eye care, the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) has been working since 2005 to implement a sustainable model of community eye care (CEC) based at two district hospitals: one in Que Son district (population >80,000) and one in Dai Loc district (population >145,000). This work is supported by Standard Chartered Bank’s ‘Seeing is Believing’ Initiative.
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