The First National Itinerant Congress on Ophthalmology, held in this central province, acknowledged the strengths that this medical specialty has today in Sancti Spiritus with highly qualified personnel.»
Although experts say that malignant eyelid lesions tend to appear in people with half a century of life, Sancti Spiritus province, in central Cuba, reveals some peculiarity as half of the patients diagnosed with this condition does not exceed the 45 years.»
The Third Scientific Forum on Ophthalmology will be held in the central Cuban territory of Sancti Spiritus, from this Wednesday through Friday. The Camilo Cienfuegos General Hospital is the venue of the event.»
Uveitis, commonly known as intraocular inflammation, is one of the ophthalmic pathologies that affect in great extent residents in Sancti Spiritus, as well as the rest of the world, with an incidence, up to this moment, of some 150 new cases.»
Corneal transplantations have been resumed in Sancti Spiritus’s Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial General Hospital, a service that was stopped here one year ago.»
Sancti Spiritus’s Provincial Ophthalmology Center has proved to be very efficient since it was first opened less than five years ago. Just to give an example, over 40 000 local patients were diagnosed in the institution’s outpatient clinics in 2011.»
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