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• 01 / 10 / 2007

That Cuban-Venezuelan initiative is devising principles for Latin American and Caribbean integration based on justice and social inclusion.

Matanzas Vice Mayor Magalys Gonzalez Esperon told Prensa Latina that Operation Miracle, created to attend to people suffering eye problems, has permitted the performance of 16,546 surgeries by a medical team of 50 people, including physicians, nurses, technicians and 159 service workers.

Over 12,000 Venezuelan patients, 3,442 Cuban citizens and over 2,000 other Latin American and Caribbean patients were treated for diabetic retinopathies, glaucoma, cataracts, night blindness and squint.

The medical personnel have such high-tech equipment at their disposal as ocular ultrasound, retina lasers, ocular tomography and angiography, among others.

Some 4,700 Latin American medical students from 11 countries are training here, while 362 Caribbean students are studying nursing, many of them in the seven policlinics.

ALBA s extension plan for this territory this year includes another five establishments in the noble work of training medical staff from other nations.

Source: Prensa Latina