Standard Chartered looks to improve eye treatment in China

Fei Yuxi, director of the ophthalmology department at the Guangdong Lianzhou People's Hospital, is looking forward to improving his team's surgical skills and ability to diagnose and treat eye diseases, after they attend a standardized training program to improve eye care in rural China.

Located in Lianzhou, a county-level city with a population of 550,000 in Guangdong province, the hospital he works for has only three ophthalmologists and two of them are fairly young. Last year, they performed more than 600 surgical procedures, including more than 300 cataract operations.

"We need comprehensive training sessions, especially those that improve our surgical expertise," he said.