[NYTr] Mexican Governor Grateful for Cuban Supply of Medical Equipment

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Mexican Governor Grateful for Cuban Supply of Medical Equipment

Havana, August 13 (acn) A Mexican governor, Lazaro Cardenas Batel, 
thanked Cuba's Health Ministry this Friday for supplying equipment for 
five ophthalmologic centers in the department of Michoacan.

With the aid of Cuba, surgery rooms in these centers are perfectly 
equipped and a total of 855 eye surgeries have been performed there, 
commented Cardenas Batel. So far the state run program to improve 
visual health has operated on 3,733 people so far.

Meanwhile, the national program for cataract surgery "Volver a ver" 
(Seeing Again) was officially inaugurated by President Felipe Calderon 
this Thursday in the Miguel Silva Hospital of Morelia, the capital of 
the province, as reported by Prensa Latina News Agency.

Calderon recalled the fact that prior to this, many low-income Mexicans 
were forced to either get eye surgeries out of the country or rely on 
charitable programs sponsored by foreign countries.

"We want even development for the whole country and full access to 
medical services for every Mexican, who all deserve healthy and decent 
lives," declared the Mexican head of state, who promised to cure 95 per 
cent of all people with eye problems.