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Operation Miracle Has Benefited More Than 109,000 Guatemalans
Cuban ophthalmologists have benefited about 109,742 Guatemalans since 2008 to date, the national coordinating committee of the Operation Miracle program, Rosa Lidia Torres, stated.
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Prensa Latina
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Cuban ophthalmologists have benefited about 109,742 Guatemalans since 2008 to date, the national coordinating committee of the Operation Miracle program, Rosa Lidia Torres, stated.
In conversation with Prensa Latina, Torres said that this information includes those operated on for cataract and pterygium, an abnormal growth of a tissue in the conjunctiva over the cornea, without other minor surgeries for eye diseases.
About 8,342 people have already been treated from January to September this year, in the four ophthalmologic centers located in the department of Guatemala, Jalapa, San Marcos, and Escuintla.
These results respond to the work team, which has enabled us to earn the Guatemalan people's respect, he said.
Not only Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, but also Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera, have publicly acknowledged the work done by the entire Cuban health staff. They have carried out more than 34 million consultations since 1998 in remote places of the national territory.
Operation Miracle is a humanitarian project started in 2004, promoted by the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, in order to restore the sight of poor people suffering from many eye afflictions.
More than three million Latin Americans from Guatemala, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, and Dominican Republic, have undergone free surgeries for 11 years.
In conversation with Prensa Latina, Torres said that this information includes those operated on for cataract and pterygium, an abnormal growth of a tissue in the conjunctiva over the cornea, without other minor surgeries for eye diseases.
About 8,342 people have already been treated from January to September this year, in the four ophthalmologic centers located in the department of Guatemala, Jalapa, San Marcos, and Escuintla.
These results respond to the work team, which has enabled us to earn the Guatemalan people's respect, he said.
Not only Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, but also Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera, have publicly acknowledged the work done by the entire Cuban health staff. They have carried out more than 34 million consultations since 1998 in remote places of the national territory.
Operation Miracle is a humanitarian project started in 2004, promoted by the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, in order to restore the sight of poor people suffering from many eye afflictions.
More than three million Latin Americans from Guatemala, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, and Dominican Republic, have undergone free surgeries for 11 years.