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Cuba’s Mission Miracle to be restarted

Aug 21, 2008 News

The Cuban Mission Miracle eye project, which was suspended in December last year, is to be reintroduced to address eye diseases until the $140M ophthalmology centre at Port Mourant, Berbice is completed.
Kaieteur News understands that the Cuba and Guyana Governments will soon be restarting the project since the completion of the eye clinic in Port Mourant is behind schedule.  This newspaper understands that screening of patients going to Cuba for surgery will be done by ophthalmologists at the Complete Treatment and Diagnostic Centres at Diamond, Suddie, Mahaicony and Leonora.
The source said that the Port Mourant centre is now scheduled to be opened by the end of the year.
Reports are that equipment for the centre is to be dispatched from Cuba in a few days. Infrastructural works on the facility are almost completed.  A massive training programme in the area of eye care is expected to begin soon.
The Guyana/Cuba eye care programme was signed between President Jagdeo and Cuban President Fidel Castro in February 2006.
Miracle Mission teams, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, conducted several outreaches in all the administrative regions of Guyana and screened persons for cataract and other eye-related diseases. Thousands of persons were sent to Cuba for surgeries.
The project was suspended last December since the ophthalmology centre at Port Mourant, Berbice was to have been completed and assume the functions of the Cuban programme.
According to figures from the World Health Organization, there are more than 37 million people in the world who have lost their sight as a result of preventable eye ailments. Of these, more than a million and a half are children below the age of 16.
In Third World countries, the main causes of blindness are cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, infectious diseases such as trachoma and onchocerciasis, and Vitamin A deficiencies. Other ophthalmologic diseases such as pterygium, ptosis and strabism are very frequent in both children and adults.

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