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Guatemala Honors Cuban Ophthalmologists
The Guatemalan government granted on Monday the Order of the Quetzal (Commander degree) to the Cuban members of the Operation Miracle free eye-surgery program that has allowed more than 40,000 low-income people in this Central American nation to recover or improve their sight.
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The Guatemalan government granted on Monday the Order of the Quetzal (Commander degree) to the Cuban members of the Operation Miracle free eye-surgery program that has allowed more than 40,000 low-income people in this Central American nation to recover or improve their sight.
The distinction, the most important in Guatemala, was presented by President Alvaro Colom during a ceremony at the Naval Base of the Pacific in the port of San Jose, the place that saw the first Cuban doctors arrive in Guatemala ten years ago to treat victims of hurricane Mitch.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, Colom highly commended Cuba’s assistance and the work of the Cuban doctors who have given more than 26 million consultations in remote places of the Guatemalan geography.
He also praised the Cuban literacy methodology ‘Yo si puedo’ (Yes, I Can), which will allow thousands of Guatemalans to learn to read and write with the assistance of Cuban instructors.
Colom also announced his interest in visiting Cuba.
For his part, the Cuban ambassador to Guatemala, Omar Morales, thanked Colom for meeting with the Cuban health workers, who traveled to San Jose from all the Guatemalan departments where they work.
The distinction, the most important in Guatemala, was presented by President Alvaro Colom during a ceremony at the Naval Base of the Pacific in the port of San Jose, the place that saw the first Cuban doctors arrive in Guatemala ten years ago to treat victims of hurricane Mitch.
According to Prensa Latina news agency, Colom highly commended Cuba’s assistance and the work of the Cuban doctors who have given more than 26 million consultations in remote places of the Guatemalan geography.
He also praised the Cuban literacy methodology ‘Yo si puedo’ (Yes, I Can), which will allow thousands of Guatemalans to learn to read and write with the assistance of Cuban instructors.
Colom also announced his interest in visiting Cuba.
For his part, the Cuban ambassador to Guatemala, Omar Morales, thanked Colom for meeting with the Cuban health workers, who traveled to San Jose from all the Guatemalan departments where they work.