Cuban children improve their vision through successful cataract surgery
- Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
- Health and Medicine
- 11 / 08 / 2011
There are already 27 children have contact lenses that could restore vision through cataract surgery and implanted lenses in Santiago de Cuba. Thanks to these proceedings such children have a better future.
Eben Ezer Rosello, three months, who had a bilateral congenital cataracts, had never seen the face of his mother or appreciate the colors until he was involved in the Children's Hospital South, of this city.
Dr. Leonardo Perez, chief of ophthalmology services at the Centre, explained that the vision will happily returned to the small and their current behavior demonstrates the surgical success.
According to him, Ezer Roselló came to the office with waterfalls, dense enough for light quality did not reach the retina of your eyes.
The boy's mother, Ramirez Enelis very excited about the changes seen in his firstborn, he appreciated the care they received in the institution of Santiago, where they were welcomed after a long journey from the province of Granma.
In the pediatric hospital care for patients in the five eastern provinces and extend surgery services ocular diseases such as cornea and glaucoma.
The ophthalmologist said that patients in this age the procedure is more complicated, because smaller when the eye needs of specialized instruments, as well as difficulties arise iris flaccidity, weakness of the walls of the body and increased risk of inflammation.
According to the specialist, part of the success of the operation is to meet the condition early, and the dedication of the family in the postoperative care of the patient, who should be put on and remove the lens every day.
About a thousand euros it costs a proceeding of this kind in the world, where an estimated one in 38 live births have congenital cataracts.
Despite the limitations of the equipment spare parts of pediatric ophthalmology,-valued by more than 120 000 euros, the operating microscope has, boundary scan, ultrasound, laser anterior segment and slit lamps, among other equipment, employees to serve about 50 children there daily.
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