SC Bank provides US$1 million for eye care program
(VOV) - Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam has offered US$1 million for the fifth phase implementation of the eye care project.
The offer was announced at a meeting to mark World Sight Day held in Hanoi on October 11 by the SC Bank, Fred Hollows Foundation and Hanoi Eye Hospital.
The fifth phase of the project will be implemented from 2013 to 2016 with the aim of helping local medical centres to improve the quality of eye care services and providing medical facilities for remote and mountainous areas.
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It will also help reduce the number of diseases which cause blindness but can be avoidable.
The project is within the framework of the global campaign “Seeing is Believing” initiated by SC Bank.
Since 2004, the SC Bank-funded project has contributed to providing eye care services for millions of Vietnamese people and reducing the number of blind people.