Some 11,700 people in Venezuela recovered their vision in January, after being operated on thanks to Operation Miracle, a project boosted by that nation and Cuba, aimed at helping people of scant economic resources to recover their sight.
The international coordinator of this program, Manuel Pacheco, told the press in Caracas that, from this figure, 10,831 were operated on by Cuban specialists working in Venezuela, while 861 were patients seen by doctors from that South American nation. Pacheco added that another 363 Venezuelans are waiting to be operated on in their country, between this week and February 1st.
He highlighted that, as well, 456 Latin Americans, coming from Honduras, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador, will also be operated on.
The joint work by Cuban and Venezuelan specialists, he stressed, made it possible to operate on patients, and to begin the surgery procedures with those found during the travelling campaigns to identify potential patients, held in 2008, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
So far, more than 1,384,300 people from 33 nations, including Cubans, have been operated on under this eye program, the CubaCoopera Web site reports. From this figure, 1,212,098 are foreigners, 265,443 of whom have been operated on in Cuba. The rest underwent surgery in 57 eye centres, with 88 operating rooms equipped with high technology, donated by the archipelago to 15 nations.
In Third World countries, the main causes of blindness are cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, infectious diseases, and Vitamin A deficiency .
Recuperan la visión en enero más de 11 mil venezolanos
martes, 27 de enero de 2009
Make beauty people from Camagüey their city to celebrate anniversary 495
The respect of the current generations of Camagüey, beats in each of the rebuit works and in each artistic and social action that will greet to the historical center of the old provincial capital in its anniversary 495 the next one February two.The above-mentioned stood out in the conference of offered press this Monday for the maximum authorities of the Municipal Assembly of the Popular Power, of the Historian's Office and of other entities made responsible with the organization of the Week of the Culture that will pay to the date, between the first and seven in the incoming month.
Andrés Morales Leal, president of the maximum government organ in the town head, emphasized that the celebration-already to the doors - it continues corroborating the fullness recuperator of a demarcation that experienced severe hurts in his built patrimony, during the step of the recent hurricanes.
“Not for less brilliant than the festivity of the Anniversary 490- indicated - these activities prepare consequently to the territory to welcome the means millennium of this lover's urban historical center existence and the declaration of one of their segments for the UNESCO like Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.
The interventions of different officials, enumerated during the press Conference, the multiplicity of foreseen activities that surpass the figure of 300, which will take place in a demarcation that continues beautifying and being rejuvenated, such us its patrimonial legacy demands it. (Yolanda Ferrera Sosa).
lunes, 26 de enero de 2009
Some considerations on the Special Period, and a little more
By:Ernesto Pantaleòn Medina
The called Special Period in Cuba brought itself a sensitive depression in the infrastructure created in the county of Camagüey (about 500 kilometers to the east of City of Havana) and that had its good stage in the years 80, time in that the territory had real possibilities to produce 11 000 tons of pig meat, 300 million eggs and other so many of liters of milk, for only to mention some examples.
The fact was very near those ends, and the swinish company ended up giving 9 000 tons, while in the branch milkmaid the flock had 73 000 cows in double milk, what propitiated a true jump in the food production.
But to sustain that gigantic productive apparatus, the agriculture of Camagüey prepared of almost 200 000 tons of food annually, and the sugar entities gave like complement double that volume of honey for the diet of the animals, among other items that constituted a guarantee and that in a moment, starting from the 90 stopped to exist in a good part.
Although today the country experiences a discreet recovery in its economy, the readiness in the insurance distan much of those reference levels, especially in times in that the prices are shot in the International Market, at the same time that you intensify the blockade that maintain the United States for five decades.
And when there is not back material, or is this insufficient, what is it? of what the workers are been worth to move away to the country of the terrible one "level zero" that threatened us during years.
The answer can only be in strengths that, not had enunciated an and another time, lose its validity: the intelligence, the organization, the control on the few resources that we prepare, but mainly, the exact understanding that many wait for us.
The called Special Period in Cuba brought itself a sensitive depression in the infrastructure created in the county of Camagüey (about 500 kilometers to the east of City of Havana) and that had its good stage in the years 80, time in that the territory had real possibilities to produce 11 000 tons of pig meat, 300 million eggs and other so many of liters of milk, for only to mention some examples.
The fact was very near those ends, and the swinish company ended up giving 9 000 tons, while in the branch milkmaid the flock had 73 000 cows in double milk, what propitiated a true jump in the food production.
But to sustain that gigantic productive apparatus, the agriculture of Camagüey prepared of almost 200 000 tons of food annually, and the sugar entities gave like complement double that volume of honey for the diet of the animals, among other items that constituted a guarantee and that in a moment, starting from the 90 stopped to exist in a good part.
Although today the country experiences a discreet recovery in its economy, the readiness in the insurance distan much of those reference levels, especially in times in that the prices are shot in the International Market, at the same time that you intensify the blockade that maintain the United States for five decades.
And when there is not back material, or is this insufficient, what is it? of what the workers are been worth to move away to the country of the terrible one "level zero" that threatened us during years.
The answer can only be in strengths that, not had enunciated an and another time, lose its validity: the intelligence, the organization, the control on the few resources that we prepare, but mainly, the exact understanding that many wait for us.
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