Fw: BlindNews: U.S. eye bank pledges aid for Vietnam corneal transplant

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> Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam
> Sunday, March 20, 2005
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> U.S. eye bank pledges aid for Vietnam corneal transplant
>
> The Fresno Eye Bank in the U.S. has recently pledged technical and
equipment aid for the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Society for Poor Patients
to carry out corneal transplant operations on poor patients.
>
> Thomas Good, managing director of the Fresno eye bank, and Nguyen Vinh
Nghiep, chairman of the Sponsoring Society for Poor Patients, signed an
agreement March 19 for the U.S. eye bank to provide corneas, equipment and
technical aid for the establishment of a cornea bank in the city.
>
> The society has conducted corneal transplant operations for 118 blind
people nationwide thanks to the Fresno Eye Bank's supply of corneas.
>
> At the signing ceremony, the society also launched a program calling on
people to donate their corneas after death. Superior Buddhist monk Thich
Chon Tinh from Giac Ngo Newspaper agreed to donate his corneas after his
death.
>
> Reported by Ngoc Trang - Translated by T.H.
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> http://www.thanhniennews.com/healthy/?catid=8&newsid=5664
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