Four New Members WAEH

November 3, 2022

The WAEH wishes the following four eye hospitals a warm welcome into the global network of eyehospitals! The four new hospitals are: Hôpital National des 15-20 from France, OPTY Eye hospital Chain from Brazil, Dharan Eye Specialist Hospital from Saudi Arabia and last but not least, South Tyneside Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust from the United Kingdom.

These new members of the WAEH are all stand alone eye hospitals or eye departments of general hospitals. Interested in joining the World Association of Eye Hospitals? Knowledge and information is shared between eyehospitals across the globe during our bi-monthly live webinars and the annual meeting. We exchange projects like medical outcomes and topics like hospital management, fundraising and many other topics.

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