HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 15 (acn) The Mision Milagro Foundation in Venezuela —which provides free eye care to low-income people— hopes to increase the number of weekly surgeries in 800 in order to improve ophthalmological services in public hospitals.">HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 15 (acn) The Mision Milagro Foundation in Venezuela —which provides free eye care to low-income people— hopes to increase the number of weekly surgeries in 800 in order to improve ophthalmological services in public hospitals.">

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HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 15 (acn) The Mision Milagro Foundation in Venezuela —which provides free eye care to low-income people— hopes to increase the number of weekly surgeries in 800 in order to improve ophthalmological services in public hospitals.

Manuel Pacheco, coordinator of this organization, said that, as part of this program promoted by Cuba and Venezuela, a total of 3,900 weekly surgeries were performed last year at the biggest hospital of Caracas, the Miguel Perez Carreño.

He added that, in order to increase this figure, several infrastructure improvements were made and more specialists will join the public services to offer free health care, Prensa Latina news agency reports.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, wrote on his December 29, 2010, reflection that the Mision Milagro program began with ophthalmologists treating very poor Venezuelan people suffering from cataracts.

“This initiative,” he wrote, “has helped nearly 1.8 million people from 35 countries recover or improve their sight, including that of Mario Teran, the Bolivian sergeant that assassinated Ernesto Che Guevara in 1967 in Bolivia.”

Mision Milagro was born on August 21, 2005, in Villa Bolivar, in the municipality of Sandino, in the Cuban westernmost province of Pinar del Rio, with the signing of an agreement between Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Source: ACN


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