The Tuong Nguyen Pagoda Charity Association (Khanh Hoi ward, Ho Chi Minh City) has coordinated with a team of specialist doctors and nurses to organize a charity eye surgery program with the theme "Bringing compassionate light to poor people in remote and isolated areas". The program targets people in difficult circumstances, suffering from eye diseases from many provinces and cities across the country.
According to the Organizing Committee, the program has fully sponsored costs and successfully performed surgery for 230 cases of eye diseases, mainly elderly people with cataracts, helping them have the opportunity to regain light after a long time living in declining vision.
It is known that the entire funding for the program is contributed by Buddhist Dinh Thi Kim Dung and Buddhist Le Thi Bich Nga (of An Vui Buddhism). In addition to sponsoring surgery costs, philanthropists and volunteers also accompany to take care of each meal, prepare gifts as well as be on duty to encourage the spirit of patients throughout their treatment at the hospital.
In the post-operative area, joy and emotion spread on the faces of many elderly men and women. Many patients choked up and shared that thanks to the program, they had the opportunity to clearly see their loved ones' faces and be more convenient in daily life after many years of living with blindness and opacity because they did not have money for treatment.
Representatives of the Tuong Nguyen Pagoda Charity Association said that community health care activities, especially supporting surgery to bring light to the poor, are one of the core charitable activities that the pagoda has maintained regularly for many years. Each successful surgery not only helps change the fate of a patient but also ignites faith and will to live for their whole family.
