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Construction has started on the new state-of-the-art ophthalmology centre at Port Mourant and contractors are hopeful of meeting the completion deadline which is two-and-a-half months away. This new institution is another component of the Guyana/Cuba eye care initiative which seeks to provide quality eye care for Guyanese.

The agreement to build an ophthalmology centre in Guyana was made between Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Fidel Castro when the President visited Cuba in February this year.

The agreement also provides for the construction of four diagnostic centres which are already underway at Suddie, (Region Two) Leonora, (Region Three) Mahaicony (Region Five) and Diamond (Region Four).

The $140M facility in the compound of the Port Mourant Hospital, Corentyne Berbice will include a surgical unit, which will cater for laser surgery and another unit for patient care and consultancy services. These will be facilitated at a newly renovated section of the Hospital.

Consultancy services will be offered by a 35-member team of Cuban doctors when the institution starts operating. The Ministry of Health will assume full responsibility of the facility eventually.

Technical assistance for the facility’s construction is being provided by two Cuban specialists; an architect and an electrical engineer.

According to Project Coordinator, Dennis Tahal, the facility will also be providing services to persons from neighbouring Brazil, Venezuela and Suriname at a minimal cost.

These patients will travel to Guyana under an arrangement similar to that presently provided for Guyanese travelling to Cuba for eye-surgery.

Over 4,000 Guyanese have so far benefited from eye surgery in Cuba, under the collaborative eye-care programme which began in July 2005 when the first batch of 117 Guyanese travelled to Cuba.

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