New Zealand will put $3.8 million towards a new eye care centre in the Solomon Islands, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today.
Mr McCully said 80,000 of the Solomons' population of 550,000 were blind, and four out of five of these people could have their sight restored through an operation.
The new funding would allow the Fred Hollows Foundation NZ to open a new eye centre in Honiara which would be capable of delivering 1900 surgeries a year from early 2015.
The centre would get 90 per cent of its power from solar panels.
