Cuba's Operation Miracle Has Treated One Million Patients

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Cuba's Operation Miracle Has Treated One Million Patients

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Cuba's Operation Miracle Has Treated One Million Patients

Havana, Dec 21(acn) One million people from various countries have been
treated through the Cuban eye surgery program called "Operation
Miracle".

The achievement was celebrated in Nicaragua, where an ophthalmologic
clinic was opened in April with Cuban assistance and nearly 15,000 eye
operations have been performed. Operation Miracle is a cooperation
program under the solidarity and integrationist principles of the
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas ALBA.

The idea was conceived by Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, who
originally thought of 5,000 free eye operations per year for low income
Latin Americans. Figures at present are running at 5,000 surgeries per
month.

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