古巴通訊（148B）二十年來第一次，古巴領導人訪問莫斯科/ 138萬中南美洲中下階層民眾重見光明

「台灣古巴後援會籌備中」，第148期通訊，2009年1月29日。
 

各位朋友好，

 

新春，英國的Cuba Solidarity Campaign刻正發動遊說，要求英國部長訪問哈瓦那，此外，

 

一，二十年來第一次，古巴領導人訪問莫斯科

二，138萬中南美洲中下階層民眾重見光明，古巴委內瑞拉方案成效漸顯

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二十年來第一次，古巴領導人訪問莫斯科

勞爾‧卡斯特羅將于1月28日對俄羅斯進行正式訪問

 

俄新網RUSNEWS.CN莫斯科1月27日電

 

克里姆林宮新聞處26日表示，應俄羅斯總統德米特里·梅德韋傑夫的邀請，古巴國務委員會主席兼部長會議主席勞爾·卡斯特羅將于1月28日至2月4日對俄羅斯進行正式訪問。預計，在此次訪問結束時勞爾·卡斯特羅將簽署一系列文件。

 

2008年11月末俄羅斯總統德米特里·梅德韋傑夫對拉丁美洲四國進行了訪問，在到訪古巴時梅德韋傑夫同勞爾·卡斯特羅舉行了會談，並同古巴革命領導人菲德爾·卡斯特羅進行了會晤。

 

138萬中南美洲中下階層民眾重見光明，古巴委內瑞拉方案成效漸顯

 

More than 1.38 million free eye operations performed

More than Eleven Thousand Venezuelans recovered vision in January

27 January 2009

 

Some 11,700 people in Venezuela recovered their vision in January, after being operated on thanks to Operation Miracle, a project boosted by that nation and Cuba, aimed at helping people of scant economic resources to recover their sight.

 

The international coordinator of this program, Manuel Pacheco, told the press in Caracas that, from this figure, 10,831 were operated on by Cuban specialists working in Venezuela, while 861 were patients seen by doctors from that South American nation. Pacheco added that another 363 Venezuelans are waiting to be operated on in their country, between this week and February 1st.

 

He highlighted that, as well, 456 Latin Americans, coming from Honduras, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador, will also be operated on.

 

The joint work by Cuban and Venezuelan specialists, he stressed, made it possible to operate on patients, and to begin the surgery procedures with those found during the travelling campaigns to identify potential patients, held in 2008, Prensa Latina news agency reports.

 

So far, more than 1,384,300 people from 33 nations, including Cubans, have been operated on under this eye program, the CubaCoopera Web site reports. From this figure, 1,212,098 are foreigners, 265,443 of whom have been operated on in Cuba. The rest underwent surgery in 57 eye centres, with 88 operating rooms equipped with high technology, donated by the archipelago to 15 nations.

 

In Third World countries, the main causes of blindness are cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, infectious diseases, and Vitamin A deficiency.