[NYTr] Cuba Treats 10,000 Venezuelans; Operation Miracle in Bolivia
 
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:10:25 -0500 (CDT)


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Nearly 10.000 Venezuelan Patients Treated in Cuba

Havana, July 12 (acn) Some 10.000 Venezuelans have been treated in the 
Havana-based Cira Garcia Hospital since Cuba and Venezuela began 
implementing a health cooperation agreement in 2001.

According to the head of the department of medical records in the 
healthcare institution, AntolC-n Lovaina Gil, 950 Venezuelan patients 
have undergone aesthetic, orthopedic or brain surgery.

More than 1.000 patients from 86 countries, mainly Barbados, Spain, 
Canada, United States, Italy, Haiti, Mexico, Grand Cayman, and England, 
were admitted at Cira Garcia Hospital during 2006.

In addition, this medical center offers medical service to the 
community and boosts the Cuban program of cochlear implant which has 
benefited 60 patients on the island since 2005.

Cira Garcia hospital is the only healthcare Cuban institution with the 
service of Magnetic Resonance and the first in carrying out a 
successful stem cell implant in the central nervous system.

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Granma Daily via Escambray - Jul 10, 2007
http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/Science/Stbolivia070710356.htm

Cubabs Operation Miracle Reaches 100,000 in Bolivia

LA PAZ, July 10 - An estimated 100,000 Bolivians have recovered their
eyesight thanks to Operation Miracle, begun here last year with help
from Cuba.

President Evo Morales highlighted the accomplishment at the
inauguration of the fifth comprehensive diagnostic center built with
help from Cuba, in Aiquile, in the central Bolivian department of
Cochabamba.

Morales praised the unconditional assistance from the Cuban people and
President Fidel Castro, making it possible for medical professionals
and high tech equipment to be in 25 hospitals of what is slated to be
40 by the end of the year.

>From its Bolivian centers, the Operation Miracle eye surgery project
has also treated low-income citizens from Argentina, Peru and Brazil
who travel across their borders to receive attention.

Meanwhile, Cubabs ambassador in Bolivia, Rafael Dausa, reaffirmed the
commitment of the Cuban personnel to give their best as
internationalists.

Dausa noted that since their arrival to Bolivia in 2006 the Cuban
physicians have attended some five million doctorbs visits and saved an
estimated 7,000 lives.

Also, in the Bolivian literacy campaign, Cuban advisors along with
their Bolivian and Venezuelan colleagues have spearheaded a program
that has taught more than 150,000 adults to read and write.

The goal is for Bolivia to be declared free of illiteracy in 2008, said
the Cuban ambassador.

The ceremony to inaugurate the new hospital facility was also attended
by the Minister of Justice, Celima Torrico, and the Labor Minister,
Walter Delgadillo.
       
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