Cuban Operation Miracle Programme Provides Free Eye Surgery to Nearly Half a Million Low Income Patients
Almost half a million poor people from 28 Caribbean and Latin American nations have benefited from Operation Miracle, a highly successful programme started by Cuba that provides free surgery to low income patients.
Cuban Public Health Ministry official, Elia Rosa Lemus, presented a report at a recent parliamentary hearing, in which she revealed that a total of 485,476 patients have been operated on, including 290,000 Venezuelans. In her review of the programme, she stressed that Operation Miracle, created by Cuba and supported by Venezuela, has turned into a giant humanitarian campaign.
Lemus noted that one in every 87 Venezuelans has already been treated, as well as one in every 213 Bolivians and one in every 60 citizens from Antigua and Barbuda.
Today, 13 ophthalmologic centers are in service in Venezuela, and similar facilities are providing services in Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Bolivia.
Filed under Cataract Surgery, Eye Treatment, Lasik Eye Surgery, Refractive Eye Surgery
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