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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Assurance was given by Minister of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hensley Daniel that the Cuban based eye care programme, Operation Miracle Vision would be reintroduced in Nevis.
The programme had been suspended by the former Administration however, a request from the sitting NIA received the Cubans approval and would commence in the near future. This request was in keeping with the sitting Administrations undertaking to provide affordable healthcare to the people of Nevis remarked the Minister during his interview with the Department of Information.
He further stated that while he was on his visit he used the opportunity to see firsthand the accommodations offered to patients.
I went to look at the accommodation where they stay and it is as good as any hotelyou have hot and cold water, you have television in the rooms and you have common bath rooms and dining rooms, he said.
Under the Operation Miracle Vision Programme, some 1.5 million persons from Latin America and the Caribbean have been operated on in Cuba for various optical ailments.
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