The million-dollar project of the young doctor will be submitted to the Prime Minister in October

The Prime Minister assigned the Government Office to allocate one billion dong from the special source for Dr. Nguyen Ba Hai to survey user feedback in order to accelerate the progress of the glass production project for the visually impaired.

In October, the Eye Spirit project will be submitted to the Prime Minister

In this overall project, the Ministry of Science will chair the evaluation of glass quality and production costs, the Central Committee in charge of surveying users, the number of people and consultants, Mr. Dao Ngoc Chien, The Deputy Department of High Technology, Ministry of Science, said in a press conference on September 29.

According to Chien, the delegation of the ministry on September 15 worked with Dr. Nguyen Ba Hai on the project of producing the Eye glasses worth up to millions of dollars. 10 days ago, the Prime Minister approved the initial funding for Dr. Hai to write the project.

The Science and Development Newspaper quoted Science Minister Nguyen Quan as saying that the Prime Minister on September 21 entrusted the Chairman of the Government Office to allocate one billion dong from the Prime Minister's special source for Dr. Hai to do the job. survey feedback of glass users to speed up this project.

The project of Dr. Nguyen Ba Hai is being promoted quickly.(Photo: Giang Huy).

The project needs to invest in research to improve the product both in terms of suitability and quantity, so it may take 3-5 years to complete the project, Chien said.

Head of the Office of Bui The Duy Science Department said that the first batch of 300,000 units could be produced at the beginning of the year after funding.

The guide glass for the blind, also known as the Eye of the Spirit by Dr. Nguyen Ba Hai, a lecturer of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education received special attention of the Prime Minister in the meeting of scientists. young on 9/11.

The eye is shaped like a normal, but pre-programmed glass, recognizing an obstacle, left, right, top, and bottom, and vibrating it to let the user know to choose a safe direction. Over 9 times of improvement, from the first product weighs 2kg with the shape of a head hat with the cost of about 20 million dong, now the glass is 0.2kg with the price of 2 million. The lab version can also call and listen to music.

TS Hai plans to improve to the beginning of next year, the version of Eye 4 will be more compact, listen to music and have more entertainment programs for the blind. Scaling up can reduce the price to 1.3-1.5 million VND, but the total cost is still up to millions of dollars. Dr. Hai petitioned the Prime Minister to produce about one-third of the blind people in difficult situations all over the country and agreed by the Prime Minister.

At present, Vietnam has about 1.2 million blind people at different levels, of which about 300,000 are completely blind.