ORBIS FLYING EYE HOSPITAL TO ARRIVE HERE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital will arrive in Mongolia in June of this year at an invitation of the Mongolia’s Ministry of Health in line of the “Virtu Foundation” NGO. This is the sixth time for the hospital to arrive in Mongolia. This time, the hospital will work here for two weeks for give medical treatment to patients with eye problems and run training for medical doctors. The Orbis Flying Eye is a hospital at the Orbis international non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to saving sight worldwide. Orbis programs focus on the prevention of blindness and the treatment of blinding eye diseases in developing countries. Since 1982, Orbis capacity-building programs have enhanced the skills of 325,000 eye care personnel and provided medical and optical treatment to more than 23.3 million people in 92 countries. The flying hospital and its teaching facility is located on board a DC-10 jet aircraft. Orbis volunteer pilots fly the plane and its international medical team to developing countries around the world to teach urgently needed sight-saving skills. Local patients receive free treatment during this training. The NGO’s headquarter is located in New York, with offices in Toronto, London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Taipei and Cape Town. In addition to the Flying Eye Hospital, Orbis operates hospital-based programs in several countries and works with local medical research and health-care organizations on blindness prevention and eye disease treatment. An Orbis telemedicine program called "Cyber-Sight" uses the Internet to connect ophthalmologists for one-on-one collaboration and mentoring.