“A year ago, a child, a Cuban hemophiliac patient, was on a wheelchair. Today everything has changed for him, because with the application of a new treatment, we have achieved that he can have a practical normal life; he goes to school and he can play”.
Army General Raúl Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, sent a letter to the Cuban health workers that fought Ebola in West Africa.
The Free-Eye-Surgery Program, known as Operation Miracle, designed by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, has thus far reached 21 Latin American countries and 14 Caribbean nations since it was launched in 2004.
Given the natural phenomena affecting the Venezuela state of Apure, the Cuban health workers in that nation expressed their determination to assist the people in that area and in any region affected by natural disasters.
Maritza had 38 weeks of pregnancy, the hour of delivery was approaching, but her future baby had taken a trasversal position in the womb; so, the pregnant woman was bound to be subjected to a caesarean operation, but Maritza suffered from high blood pressure, and from anesthesia allergy.