Operation Miracle Advances in Panama with Cuban Assistance

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hash: SHA1

Operation Miracle Advances in Panama with Cuban Assistance

Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit

Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)

http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles

Operation Miracle Advances in Panama with Cuban Assistance

Havana, July 2 (acn) More than 3,200 Panamanians have undergone surgery

at the Omar Torrijos Herrera Ophthalmologic Center donated by Cuba to

the Central American nation as part of the Operation Miracle free

eye-surgery program, mainly for low-income Latin Americans, promoted by

the Caribbean island and Venezuela.

Dr. Julio Yamel Verdecia, director of the center located in the

province of Veraguas, explained that around 70 people are operated upon

every day. He said that out of the 3,200 patients that have received

surgery so far, 2,000 of them were operated upon for pterygium while

more than 1,000 were operated upon for cataract.

He added that the center was inaugurated last March and that the staff

of the clinic is comprised of 27 Cuban workers, including six

ophthalmologists, nurses and specialists as well as Panamanian experts

who have joined the initiative.

Verdecia noted that they receive patients from different provinces and

that nearly 7,000 people have been diagnosed.

"Our work has had an incredible impact because we are solving the

problem of thousands of people who do not have the financial resources

to do it somewhere else," he stressed.

================================================================

NY Transfer News Collective A Service of Blythe Systems

Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us

Search Archives: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/htdig/search.html

Support this work, visit our sponsor http://www.blythe-systems.com

Subscribe: http://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr

================================================================

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFGiWn6iz2i76ou9wQRAgySAJ9o6WoKODOAq02jZZEMYI6JZY4a7ACgv1PJ

a2LMo/jp9r0WMHhD8ZAcE80=

=vG36

-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----