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Preah Ang Duong Hospital

Preah Ang Duong Hospital is located at street  Preah Norodom, Sangkat Phsar thmei I, Khan Daun Penh. They to Provide basic eye care services for all Cambodia and to eliminate locally endemic blindness. It is a public hospital.

The National Program for Eye Health ( former Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Blindness ) was established in 1995 by the Ministry of Health and act as technical adviser to Ministry of Health. The role and duty of this Sub-committee was to develop and implement a National Plan for the Prevention of Blindness and provide technical advice to the Ministry of Health.

In 1995,  the Sub-committee developed a Master Plan and First Five Year Action Plan for prevention of blindness and approved by the Ministry of Health. This Plan aims to provide basic eye care service in each region of Cambodia and to reduce blindness prevalence to less than 0.5% by the year 2005.

In 2008 the New Strategic Plan for Blindness Control ( 2008-2015 ) was developed for continuing of further eye care system development in the Country. Human Resource, Facility Development, VISION 2020 Disease Control and resource mobilization are main Priorities in the National Plan.

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