Cambodia inaugurates S.Korean-funded eye care center

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting South Korea's Speaker of Parliament Chung Ui-hwa on Wednesday jointly inaugurated a four-storey Eye Care Center in the complex of Ang Duong Hospital in Phnom Penh.

Hun Sen said the building, dubbed Cambodia-Korea Friendship Eye Care Center, was constructed under South Korea's grant aid of 5.5 million U.S. dollars. The building comprises of 75 rooms, including outpatient examination rooms, inpatient rooms and operating rooms.

In addition, Kim's Eye Hospital, one of the South Korea's finest hospitals specializing in eye care, has provided technical transfer to Cambodian ophthalmologists at the center. "The center will provide high-standard eye care services to all patients,"he said. "It is a new achievement of increased cooperation between the Cambodian and South Korean governments."

In his speech, Chung said the center would improve the capacity of ophthalmic research and medical services and contribute to blind prevention rates and improvement in general eye care services in Cambodia. Endi