Orbis' third-generation Flying Eye Hospital recently touched down in Shenyang, China for its inaugural medical program.
The Flying Eye Hospital will be in China September 5-23, 2016 to deliver a three-week, high intensity ophthalmic training program in partnership with the Health & Family Planning Commission of Shenyang Municipality and He University Eye Hospital (HUEH). The purpose of the training program is to strengthen HUEH's capacity to deliver subspecialized eye care services while creating well-functioning training models (i.e. train-the-trainers) for its residents.
This first training program is jointly sponsored by the Alcon Foundation and FedEx, who donated the MD-10 aircraft to retrofit the third-generation Flying Eye Hospital in August 2011. This is reportedly Orbis' 40th program in China since its inception in 1982.
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