About 400,000 Vietnamese suffer from blindness
About 400,000 Vietnamese people suffer from blindness and 1.5 million people lost sight in one eye, according to figures released by the Vietnamese National Institute of Ophthalmology ahead of the World Sight Day.
Hand, foot and mouth disease infected nearly 62,000 people in Vietnam in September, up 55% from August, and has killed 114 since the beginning of the year, authorities said yesterday.