Eye Program Helps
Guatemala Ixils
The Ixil Triangle, a
remote zone of
Guatemala, benefits
Monday from the
Operation Miracle, a
Cuban-Venezuelan project
to provide free
ophthalmologic surgery
for low-income patients
with eye afflictions.
Nebaj, Cotzal and Chajul
towns are the three
vertices of that
triangle, whose name is
due to the Maya
community settled there
since the year 200 AD
The region is located at
the Quiche department
atáover 2,000 meters,
and although it only is
about 155 miles the trip
to that zone lasts more
than seven hours.
On March 24, Cuban
physicians decided to
install a mobile
surgical unit in the
Nebaj hospital to assist
people of that area and
its surroundings.
"I was a little cautious
at the beginning, later
the news was spread to
people of those towns
and communities and they
started to come from
everywhere," surgeon
Gaetano Di Vasto told
Prensa Latina.
Over 23,000 Guatemalan
patients have undergone
ophthalmologic surgery
since the beginning of
this program in all the
country's regions,
thanks to the
installation of mobile
surgical units and three
modern ophthalmologic
centers. |
