Asuncion, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The 10 years of the Cuban medical collaboration in the Miracle Mission in Paraguay will be held today with important achievements in helping the neediest population.
In statements to Prensa Latina, the head of 16 collaborators in this country, Dr. Carlos Alberto Perea, explained that this mission was established in 2005 but then with the sending of patients to Cuba for eye treatment.

Two years later, the employees and the required equipment in an open unit in the locality of Maria Auxiliadora, district of Tomas Romero Pereira, department of Itapua (southeast), some 480 kilometers of this capital, were established.

Since then, more than 261,000 actions of the specialty, among them 25,073 cataract and pterygium surgeries, were performed in the Eye Center, said Perea.

The work in the center is aimed to care patients with low economic resources, those who are providing general consultations, eyeglasses tests and intraocular lens power calculation, laboratory researches, surgeries, hospitalization (patients and companions) with food and delivery of free drugs, Perea stressed.

The Operation Miracle Mission is a project started on July 8, 2004 by an initiative by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

It aims to help people with limited resources so they can be operated from different eye problems and tries to solve certain diseases.

It has a network of eye centers and surgical positions in more than 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Haiti, Guatemala, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, Paraguay, Granada, Nicaragua and Uruguay.