Caracas, Feb.16 (Prensa Latina) About 4,588 Salvadorans received eye surgery in Venezuela thanks to the humanitarian work of the International Operation Miracle, program, with plans to treat 90 other patients this month from that Central American nation.

The website of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry posted an article on Wednesday saying that the patients and the people accompanying them come from different regions in El Salvador and arrived at Chinita International Airport, Zulia state, on February 8.

The patients will undergo surgery for cataracts and pterygium (a non-cancerous growth of the clear, thin tissue that lays over the white part of the eye) at Manuel Noriega Trigo Hospital, in Maracaibo, capital of Zulia state.

On Tuesday, a group of 82 Ecuadorians went home after undergoing eye surgery in Lara state, where Operation Miracle provided operations for 25,000 Venezuelans and over 5,000 people from other latin American nations.

One hundred Costa Rican citizens also arrived in Venezuela about four days ago to undergo different kinds of eye surgery at Jose Carabaño Tosta Hospital and the Central Hospital of Maracay, Aragua state.

Operation Miracle is a joint Cuban/Venezuela humanitarian project that began on July 8, 2004, and is designed to treat low-income people with vision problems.

Thousands of people from El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic have received surgery for various ophthalmic problems since the creation of that health program.

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Source: Prensa Latina