Press Conference - Presentation of 1st SIGHT Scholar

With the donation from Equal Opportunities Foundation, SIGHT established SIGHT Scholar Scheme for the first time to 6 students in two teams to let them work on their self-proposed healthcare projects in full time internship in Indonesia and Cambodia.

​The first team initiates a diabetic retinopathy screening program for Indonesia. A cloud-based software program aims to detect diabetic eye diseases from retinal images collected by a portable device will be developed.  Another awarding team has planned to further deploy a mobile application building on the foundation of the laptop-based electronic medical record system which an earlier SIGHT team built in 2015.  The app, that is easier to be carried around the slums in Cambodia, enables medical staffs to input and access information using their mobile phones, and keep medical records in a systematic, paperless, and retrievable database.  The continuous health record of patients hope to help doctors serving the most underprivileged community to make informed decisions and therefore improve the health care quality.