Dr Chow Pak Chin has championed many campaigns to eradicate blindness, especially for the underprivileged in Hong Kong and Mainland China, since he graduated from the University of Hong Kong as a medical doctor in 1977.

From 1997 to 2007, he has been the “Honorable Ophthalmologist Ambassador” of the “Sight First China Action”, which is proclaimed and commended as the largest and most successful blindness eradication campaign at present by the World Health Organization .Under the leadership of Dr Chow, about 4.5 million cataract operations have been conducted in China through the campaign over the last ten years, and several regions including Tibet were successfully made “Cataract-free Zone”.

In 2005, along with other colleagues, he initiated a campaign named “Project Vision” of which he is the Vice-Chairman. The aim of the project is to set up 100 eye centers in China over the course of five years, targeting to raise donation of RMB1 million for each center as seed money for the instruments set-up and the training of local doctors to perform eye operations. On September 22 2007, the first “Eye Center” was opened for operation in Xilinhote in Inner Mongolia. More centers will be opening in the following months.

Dr Chow’s humanity works extend beyond eye services. He is the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Medical Association Charitable Foundation. The Foundation, set up in 2005, consolidates and strengthens the efforts the Hong Kong Medical Association dedicated to organizing charitable activities since 1990. They have been raising funds for various charitable organizations and services in both Hong Kong and the mainland. Total fund raised amounts to HK$30 million over the years and are directed at alleviating the sufferings of the sick, the poor and the under-privileged.