Cuban doctors investigate eye surgery problems

Cuban doctors investigate eye surgery problems

The Cuban government has sent two of its top ophthalmologists to Jamaica
to examine patients who have suffered serious corneal damage following
eye surgeries in that country.
Director of the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology, Dr. Marcelino Rios,
told a Jamaican delegation in Cuba that doctors arrived in Kingston on
Saturday and will remain in the island until the problems have been
sorted out.

He said the affected patients may need to return to Cuba for corrective
surgery.

In the meantime members of the Jamaican delegation which visited Cuba
over the weekend have admitted that in April more than 165 Jamaican
patients were removed from a centre in Manzanillo where most of the
complications occurred.

The Jamaican authorities said this was more than a month before local
ophthalmologists expressed public concern about the number of complications.

The Cuban authorities also admitted that a few doctors have been pulled
from Manzanillo for investigation and review.

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