HEALTH CARE IN CUBA

OPHTHALMOLOGY


With over 20 years of experience since the Center for Ocular Microsurgery was founded at the Ramon Pando Ferrer Cuban Eye Institute in Havana, as many as 300,000 people have had their vision restored at the center.

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TREATMENTS


With 34 operating rooms and a hundred specialists the center currently performs as many as 90 surgeries a day.
Since Mission Miracle began in 2004, over 1 million people form 25 countries have also been operated in the hospital.
Currently Cuba’s international mission continues in more than 40 Cuban-founded eye centers.
Over the years the center has kept abreast of changes in Ophthalmology and continued to apply new therapies.
Since 2006, the center has used photodynamic therapy to stop age-related macular degeneration.
New anti-angiogenic drugs that have recently been introduced also offer hope for treating macular degeneration.
The hospital has also recently begun to perform Endokeratorplasty, a new surgical technique aimed at replacing diseased corneal endothelium while minimizing visual recovery time.


OPHTHALMOLOGY PROGRAM:

Due to the experience garnered by Cuba for over two centuries of providing medical support, Cuban medical services have gained national and international prestige, not only because of the high scientifi c and technical quality of the human resources, but also for the reliability and ethics of these people that, based on the clinical method, prescribe indispensables means for a truthful diagnosis exempted from profi ts related to unnecessary medical services.

THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:

OPHTHALMOLOGIC ASSESSMENT
COMPREHENSIVE OPHTHALMOLOGIC ASSESSMENT FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS
ASSESSMENT OF RETINA
ASSESSMENT OF MACULAR DISEASES
GLAUCOMA. SURGICAL TREATMENT. TRABECULECTOMY OF AN EYE
GLAUCOMA TREATMENT. IRIDOTOMY OF AN EYE
GLAUCOMA SURGICAL TREATMENT. DRAINAGE DEVICE IMPLANT
REFRACTIVE SURGERY WITH EXCIMER LASER OF BOTH EYES
PTERIGIUM SURGERY WITH GRAFT
SURGERY. PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY OF AN EYE
SURGERY. LAMELAR REAR KERATOPLASTY OF AN EYE (Endokeratoplasty)
SURGERY. LAMELAR ANTERIOR KERATOPLASTY OF AN EYE.



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