First Cuban Infant
Cochlear Implant
Cuba has carried out its
first cochlear implant
in a child under a year,
making it one of the few
countries in the world
to effect such surgery.
Eight-month-old Dianelys
Perez suffered
meningitis that
endangered her life and
left her deaf, and the
surgical implant should
recover her hearing
A multidisciplinary
group of experienced
Cuban medical
professionals and
prominent surgeon Angel
Fields, professor of the
University of Las
Palmas, Spain, conducted
the four-hour operation.
The Spanish physician
highlighted the Cuban
attention and priority,
treatment and solution
given the curable
illness, and the
towering professionalism
of the surgical team
with which he worked.
Israel Perez, the girl's
father, emphasized that
the operation is the
result of the Cuban
Revolution's advanced
national program of
health. |
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