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"Operation Miracle" Restores Sight to 10,000 in Ecuador

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"Operation Miracle" Restores Sight to 10,000 in Ecuador

Havana, Jan 5 (ACN) More than 10,000 low-income Ecuadorans have
undergone eye-surgery for free and recovered their sight thanks to the
Operation Miracle program, a project promoted by Cuba and Venezuela in
several Latin American countries.

Ecuadoran Health Minister Guillermo Wagner told reporters that during
the past six months the two centers devoted to ophthalmologic care
installed by Cuba have performed a total of 8,400 operations+.

The Minister said that of those 6,500 were for pterigium, 1,800 for
cataract surgery and the rest related to glaucoma and other eye
diseases, reports Granma newspaper.