[NYTr] Guatemalans Continue to Benefit from Operation Miracle
 
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:34:58 -0500 (CDT)


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Guatemalans Continue Benefiting from Operation Miracle

Havana, July 9 (acn) More than 8.500 low-income Guatemalans have 
benefited from the free-eye surgery program Operation Miracle that 
began a year ago in that Central American nation with the assistance of 
Cuban health personnel.

The work of the Cuban health workers is carried out mainly in the JosC) 
JoaquC-n Palma Ophthalmologic Center in SAan CristC3bal Verapaz.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, in this hospital, located in 
northern Guatemala, the island's doctors perform from 40 to 60 
operations per day on people suffering mainly from cataracts and other 
eye diseases.

The patients come from all the Guatemalan territory and all their 
expenses, since their hospitalization until their release, including 
accommodation and food as well as post-operatory medicines, are covered 
by the health facility.

The Operation Miracle program in Guatemala doubled its capacity in 
Guatemala earlier this year with the opening last January of the JosC) 
MartC- hospital in the city of Jalapa, for which Cuba donated all the 
equipment and which is operated by Cuban health personnel.
       
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