Cubans conducting eye tests
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- Health and Medicine
- 05 / 12 / 2010
The screening, which runs to May 21, will take place at the Princess Margaret Hospital in St Thomas, St Jago Health Centre in St Catherine and the Clarendon Health Department.
Persons — not including children — will be screened for cataracts; pterygium (fleshy tissue that grows in a triangular shape over the cornea); and diabetic retinopathy (damage to the retina caused by complications of diabetes) only.
Screenings will be conducted in other parishes at a later date.
The Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme began five years ago. Since then, thousands of Jamaicans have been screened and have benefited from eye surgery.
The programme came out of an agreement in August, 2005, when the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Jamaica together with Caribbean partners, Dominica, Guyana, St Lucia and Suriname, signed the historic Bilateral Agreement ‘Mission Operation’ for
their nationals to receive medical attention in the field of ophthalmology in Cuba.
Source: Jamaica Observer
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