Project Vision, a charity program that aims to provide free surgery to cataract patients, has been launched in Hainan province.
Jointly initiated by Project Vision Charitable Foundation, Hong Kong Yan'ai Foundation, and Hainan province, the program plans to offer free surgery to 40,000 cataract patients in Hainan in one year and aims to make the province the first one in China that is free of blindness resulting from cataracts.
With three surgery sites in Hainan which are located in Danzhou, Haikou, and Sanya, the program has offered screening for more than 14,000 cataract patients and carried out over 5,000 surgical procedures.
In addition, the Hainan provincial government and Hong Kong Yan'ai Foundation have decided to jointly set up an eye hospital in Hainan in 2010. It is said that each of them will be responsible for 50% of the investment for the construction of the hospital.
