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Cuban Doctors Receive Tribute of Nicaraguans

CUBA, May 10, 2010. Cuban doctors and technicians offering their services in the Operation Miracle project in Nicaragua received the tribute of political and governmental authorities of Jinotepe, the capital of the department of Carazo.

In a moving ceremony, Jose Ramon Alvarez, political secretary of Carazo, and Oscar Tardencia, mayor of Jinotepe, thanked the Cuban specialists for the treatment given to several thousands of Carazo citizens with eye problems, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.

There’s no Operation Miracle hospital in Carazo, so patients from that department are seen at the eye center of Ciudad Sandino, a locality on the outskirts of Managua, open since May 1st, 2007.

Alvarez pointed out that some 2,000 patients from Carazo had been operated on for various eye problems, something he described as beautiful and extraordinary.

Unlike other departments in Nicaragua, the local government in Carazo assumes the cost of glasses with its own funds, and the ceremony to pay tribute to the Cuban doctors was a good opportunity for the distribution of glasses to more than 100 patients, free of charge.

Doctor Mercedes Argote, director of the Ciudad Sandino eye center, recalled that the services of Operation Miracle in this country are the fruit of an accord adopted by the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua, within the framework of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).

The objective, said the Cuban specialist, is to benefit the population of scant economic resources, the dispossessed and the excluded, and it’s totally free of charge. This is an important detail, she added, because a cataracts surgery, for example, costs the equivalent to some 900 dollars at private hospitals in Nicaragua. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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