[NYTr] Cuba's Operation Miracle Has Treated One Million Patients
 
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:11:05 -0600 (CST)


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Cuba's Operation Miracle Has Treated One Million Patients

Havana, Dec 21(acn) One million people from various countries have been 
treated through the Cuban eye surgery program called "Operation 
Miracle".

The achievement was celebrated in Nicaragua, where an ophthalmologic 
clinic was opened in April with Cuban assistance and nearly 15,000 eye 
operations have been performed. Operation Miracle is a cooperation 
program under the solidarity and integrationist principles of the 
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas ALBA.

The idea was conceived by Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, who 
originally thought of 5,000 free eye operations per year for low income 
Latin Americans. Figures at present are running at 5,000 surgeries per 
month.
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