The benefits were part of a project on expanding eye care models for pupils under ChildSight programme that HKI has been carrying out in the district since September 2013.

The project has so far given free eye care check-up and glasses to 15,084 pupils in 27 primary schools and junior secondary schools in Quoc Oai. Around 1,440 pupils were found to be suffered from refraction disorder diseases, including 1,128 ones with short-sightedness.

It also presented some ophthalmologic equipment for Ha Dong Eye Hospital and some medical centres in Quoc Oai district.

In the near future, HKI will continue to support Quoc Oai General Hospital in developing a glasses installation department and Hanoi Eye Hospital in training 300 medical staff for schools and medical centres at wards and villages.
 

Thanks to initial success of a project on eye care project at schools under the ChildSight programme that HKI has implemented in Kon Tum province since 2011, HKI is expanding the model in some provinces and cities, such as Nam Dinh and Hanoi.

The programme has so far provided free eye care check-up and glasses for more than 80,000 pupils under 15 years old and conducted training courses on eye care skills for teachers and medical staff, and improved glasses installation skills for technicians.

It has also organized a number of communication campaigns to raise public awareness of the importance of eye care as well as the negative impacts of refraction disorder diseases among pupils.

HKI headquartered in the US has operated in Vietnam since 1990 through humanitarian activities, especially blindness prevention.