Cuba Program Healing Blind Convicts

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Cuba Program Healing Blind Convicts

The Cuban public health system has extended its ophthalmologic program Operation Miracle to prison centers, to diagnose and heal cataracts and other eye afflictions, it was reported in this capital Monday.

Granma newspaper stated today how consultations and surgeries have increased in prisons of the western province of Pinar del Rio, first in this trial experience. According to Osmany Correa, regional coordinator of the program, about one hundred convicts have been attended for operable blindness, after hardly a month of analysis.

Correa praised the human impact this experience has had in the medical group, invested with the rehabilitation of prisoners in Cuban society.

The island's government boosts and develops the Operation Miracle project throughout the country and other nations, where thousands of patients have received ophthalmologic surgery free of charge.

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