Half of the patients are receiving free eye surgeries. This is the 10^th medical examination that doctors from Military Hospital 175 under the Vietnam People’s Army and the HCM City Eye Hospital have conducted for Cambodian people.

Also on November 1, a ceremony was held in Cambodia to mark Military Hospital 175 being twinned with Royal Cambodian Army’s Military Hospital 179 for five years. 

General Ly So Van, director of Military Hospital 179 under the Royal Cambodian Army thanked the two Vietnamese hospitals for providing free health check-ups for Cambodian soldiers and disadvantaged people, transferring technologies and training human resources.

General Ly So Van also emphasized that the support from Vietnamese doctors has further strengthened cooperation, solidarity, and friendship between the two armies and peoples.

On the occasion, General Sum Sam Nang, Director of the General Department of Logistics and Finance under the Royal Cambodian Army, conferred a Friendship Order and certificates of merit on 11 collectives and 22 individuals of the two Vietnamese hospitals.

Representatives of the Vietnam People’s Army presented 250 gifts to Cambodian invalid soldiers and poor patients.