• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 02 / 27 / 2012

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The new destination of Operation Miracle is in the south of Haiti, in a rural area and will receive more than 425 thousand inhabitants in the Saint Antoine Hospital in the capital city.

The new free service, expected to provide aid for three months, provide assistance to the region where an abundance of glaucoma and corneal foreign bodies, he told this newspaper the ophthalmologist Jose Rene Reynando, head of the nine member countries of the traveling squad.

"We stay for three months in each department and try to attend and cover all the needs of the people who come to the center ophthalmologic pesquisamos well as cases in remote areas during mobile clinics conducted on weekends," explained specialist.

For his part, Dr. Jorge Casas, head of the Grand Anse Department of the Cuban Medical Brigade, stressed the importance for low-income people free eye care, it says that "no such service in public health the Department. "

Medical equipment that is moved by helicopter to Gonaives-last-position to Jeremie, has a surgical unit, a clinical laboratory and optometry instruments.

The room was set up by the Cuban electrical in less than four hours and will start operation next Monday.

Experts estimate to be made an average of 75 surgeries per week of cataracts and pterygium, the most common preventable diseases.