Started in 1982, Orbis International’s flying eye hospital is a fully equipped, state-of-the-art hospital built inside a former military airplane. Its staff is made up of volunteer surgeons, nurses, and pilots, and together they fly to developing nations to perform low-cost eye surgeries, but just as importantly, to teach local doctors how to do the same. When the hospital was in Vietnam recently, correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro spoke with some of the doctors and the patients they were helping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"