Camagüey applies with success the corneal refractive surgery with laser

The application of the corneal refractive surgery with laser constitutes an achievement of the oftalmologic discipline in the Provincial Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, and puts of relief the results of the territory of Camagüey in the operations of that type.

The Doctor Elías Cardoso, boss of that specialty in Camagüey, explained that the technique is very expensive, of having proven effectiveness, and facilitates the treatment of the refractive defects known by Myopia, Hypermetropia and Astigmatism.

Cardoso also aimed that the resource offers better covering to the affected area, diminishes the postoperative nuisances, at the same time that recognized the competition of the oculists trained in that to proceed surgical.

A hundred of people has recovered the vision from the beginning of the last year of the corneal refractive surgery in the Oftalmologic Center of Camagüey, and at the moment the diagnosis of the patients was increased with visual affectation in the initial stages of the illness, what facilitates bigger success in the surgical intervention. (Alexander López Almaguer.)