Ni Komang Erviani ,  CONTRIBUTOR ,  THE JAKARTA POST, DENPASAR   |  Wed, 01/21/2009 4:39 PM  |  Bali

The Bali government has allocated Rp 2.8 billion (US$252,000) to provide 1,000 cataract patients with free operations next month, officials said.

Director of the Bali Indera Eye Hospital Pande Nyoman Srijoni said the free operations would be given in conjunction with a government funded medical treatment program in 500 villages throughout Bali. “We will encourage cataract patients coming in for free treatment to have the eye operation with the help of the two eye-operation vans we received from Australia,” he said on Monday. [Read more →]