Ophthalmological brigade to restart Operation Miracle in Suriname
Paramaribo. March 3, 2009. The team of the ophthalmological brigade of Operation Miracle arrived at the international airport Johan Adolf Pengel at Zanderij on March 3, to continue its mission in Suriname.
The team was welcomed at the airport by Andrés González Garrido, Cuban ambassador to Suriname; Dr. Eddy Millan Escalona, head of the Medical Brigade of the Cuban Integral Health Program; and Edwin Noordzee, officer of the Health Ministry of Suriname.
The group consists of 10 specialists among them ophthalmologists, specialists in general integral medicine, nurses, an optometrist, laboratory assistants, an anesthetist, and a technician specialized in medical electronics. They will start work Wednesday March 4, at the ‘s Lands Hospital in Paramaribo.
Operation Miracle started in Suriname on October 10, 2005. In the beginning Surinamese eye patients were transported to hospitals in the Cuban cities of Havana and Cienfuegos for eye surgeries. From August 2007 Cuban ophthalmological teams started to perform the eye surgeries in the‘s Lands Hospital in Paramaribo.
Up till now 4.987 Surinamese patients have undergone eye surgeries performed by Cuban doctors.
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