Operation Miracle team continues checking patients in Suriname
Suriname. June 10, 2009. With the objective to improve the quality of vision of Surinamese patients, the Cuban group of Operation Miracle has continued checking patients in several locations in the capital city Paramaribo and also in the interior of the country.
During the past weeks the Operation Miracle team visited several communities in Zanderij, Paranam, Matta, and Nieuw Weer Gevondenweg km 2½ in the district of Para.
The team also gave ophthalmological check ups to a group of patients in the Haemodialysis Center in Paramaribo, and employees of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. During these consultations it turned out that several persons had ophthalmological pathologies that require surgery.
The ophthalmological brigade, consisting of ten specialists, also checked patients in the community of Groningen in the district of Saramacca.
In May the team checked 386 patients, of these, 43 had ophthalmological pathologies requiring surgery. The team offered optometric services to all patients and suited treatment to those who did not require surgery.
Parallel to this work the team continues the ophthalmological surgeries at the
‘s Lands Hospitaal, a state run hospital, in Paramaribo.
Operation Miracle began in Suriname on October 10, 2005. Until today 5,279 eye surgeries were performed on Surinamese patients by teams of Operation Miracle. (Cubaminrex- Embacuba Surinam)
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