[NYTr] Cuban Surgeons in Nicaragua
 
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:37:53 -0500 (CDT)


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Cuban Surgeons in Nicaragua

Managua, Aug 27 (Prensa Latina) To date 6,400 low income Nicaraguans
have had surgery for cataracts or pterigium (granulated tissue) by
Cuban ophthalmologists working since last May in a clinic on the
outskirts of Managua, reported medical sources Tuesday.

The chief of the Cuban medical brigade in Nicaragua, Luis Carlos Avila,
told Prensa Latina that specialists in Sandino City's ophthalmologic
hospital have cared for nearly 13,000 patients. 

The clinic was opened last May after being inaugurated by President
Daniel Ortega.

Cuba contributed with medical equipment and staff as part of the Eye
Surgery Program and the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA),
an integration initiative boosted by Venezuela and Bolivia.

Beside the ophthalmologic attention at the Clinic in Sandino City,
Nicaraguans will also have the opportunity to recover their vision in
specialized centers in Venezuela

Another 125 Cuban health professionals are working in areas of
difficult access in the North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions in
which cities will be install large eye clinics and two small hospitals.

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