| China encourages foreign businesses to build hospitals
During the 2007 Public-Private Sector Cooperation Forum (Health), one investor segment of the World Bank Group expressed its desire to promote cooperation between public and private medical institutions in China, particularly by investing in hospitals. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) hopes to invest US$700 million in Chinese hospitals during the 2006/2007 fiscal year. According World Bank (WB) spokesperson, the WB has already invested in two medical projects in China, providing a 64.88-million-yuan loan to Hemujia hospital and its clinics in Beijing and Shanghai, and a 64-million-yuan loan to Albert Ophthalmology Hospital. Analysts say that the rapid development of the medical service market in China has created a lot of investment opportunities in recent years.
Macular Degeneration seminar is April 21
The sixth annual Charles I. Lathrem Senior Center Macular Degeneration Seminar will be held Saturday, Apr. 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lathrem Senior Center, 2900 Glengarry Dr., in Ketteirng.
The featured speaker will be Dr. Joseph L. Fontenot, MD, the medical directior aqnd low vision rehabilitation specialist with Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation in Mobile, Ala.
A retired cardiologist, Fontenot is a presenter for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the National Federation for the Blind.
The program will also include a nutritionist speaker and a pharmacist speaker. The seminar will benefit those with low vision as well as family and friends. The cost is $2 for the seminar only, $8 for the seminar and lunch (lunch must be ordered by April 16).
Fund pledges cash for eye tests
BINH DINH The Sydney Fred Hollows Fund (FHF) has pledged assistance worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for the visually impaired in the central province of Binh Dinh. Virginia Sarah, the acting director of FHFs International Programme and head of the foundations Working Mission, announced at a working session with provincial leaders on Thursday details of a US$490,000 eye-care project. The three-year scheme aims to provide free eye tests and cataract operations for the poor, in addition to making donations of hi-tech equipment and funds for staff training at the provincial eye care centre. Over the past two years, the FHF-funded project has helped restore the eyesight to over 1,800 poor people and trained ophthalmologists at two local medical centres to perform cataract surgery.
Report on botched eye camp submitted
Imphal, March 30: A committee of senior opthalmologists that probed the botched eye camp at Bishnupur which resulted in the loss of eye sights of five persons has submitted its report to the State Government.
Officials sources informed The Sangai Express that the sealed report was submitted to the State Health Secretary P Vaiphei on March 28.The tragic eye camp during which 16 patients were operated upon for cataract was held at Bishnupur district hospital on February 23 under the aegis of the District Blindness Control Society.
The cataract operations were conducted by a team of doctors including Dr P Binata, Dr Kh Rajendro and Dr RK Bidyarani.
The camp was conducted under the overall supervision of Dr Y Yaima who is also the State Programme Officer of the Manipur Blindness Control Society.
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