06-25-2008, 01:42 PM
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Viva Fidel
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Cuban Revolution Responsible For 25,000 Eye Surgeries In Nicaragua
Yet this is the country under sanctions and embargo. It's a sad indictement of our world that a little poor country that has shown more solidarity with the underdeveloped world is punished.
VIVA FIDEL
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MANAGUA, June 23.— Cuba’s Operation Miracle specialists today surpassed the 25,000 mark in surgeries performed on Nicaraguan patients with vision problems, according to statistical reports.
Working in Sandino City, less than 20 kilometers west of the capital, the group of doctors have performed more than 5,458 cataract operations, 18,624 for pterigium, as well as treating other eye ailments such as glaucoma.
The beneficiaries of these services are, for the most part, low-income patients, in the majority individuals who are unable to pay for this type of surgery within the country’s private clinics.
Members of the Cuban Medical Brigade deployed across the country have provided a total of 1,110,264 consultations.
Among these are 2,477 surgeries for other conditions and 1,934 births, Dr. Luis Carlos Avila, leader of the group, told Prensa Latina.
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EDIT : I know i missed an a out in Nicaragua, my mistake.
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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"
"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"
Last edited by Comrade Joe : 06-25-2008 at 01:47 PM.
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