In an interview with Prensa Latina, Teresa de los Angeles Casanova, head surgeon of this team at the Juan Maria de Salvatierra Hospital in the city of La Paz, comments on the characteristics of their work and the results obtained as part of the collaboration between the two countries.
According to the member of the island’s medical brigade in this nation, the center considered a reference, receives patients with ocular traumas from all over the entity, and three professionals from the largest of the Antilles attend patients ranging from newborns to long-lived adults.
We carry out weekly surgical activities, including pterygium, cataract, and other types of ocular diseases,” said the doctor, who highlighted that in 2023 and 2024, surgery campaigns related to the second ailment will be carried out.
Likewise, the Caribbean nation’s professionals have participated ‘in the process of ablation, multi-organ transplants, in turn with surgeons at the kidney and cornea level, precisely by procuring organs for patients in need,’ she points out.
We have remained very directly linked with all the hospital’s services,” he says, “such as pediatrics, oncohematology in children, precisely the interaction and follow-up of these children, as well as the gynecology and internal medicine services,” and others.
Referring to the purpose of their work in these lands, to prevent blindness, the specialist with 33 years of experience expressed her satisfaction in affirming that they made it possible for many people to recover their sight and achieve a better quality of life.
A few days ago, President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged the performance of the island’s specialists in Mexico, who currently number more than three thousand, and assured that she will continue to hire them and those from other countries.
Concerning visits to health centers, during her tours throughout the country, Sheinbaum mentioned that she had seen Cuban doctors working in the most remote places ‘with conviction and integration with all the health personnel which is very important for the population’.
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