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FROM
CUBA
Havana
hospital operating room closed for six months
due to infection
HAVANA, Cuba, October 13 (www.cubanet.org) -
The ophthalmology operating room in Havana's showcase
Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital has been closed for
over six months now due to contamination by staphylococcus
bacteria. Some patients have been waiting for
over a year for surgery at the hospital, the only
one doing laser procedures for cataracts on the
island. The waiting list for the surgery runs
over 3,000 patients. Ada Cabrera, 75, has been
waiting for over two years now. "First, there
were no lenses available," she says, "and now,
the operating room is contaminated." The waiting
time to see an ophthalmologist can be up to eight
months; for some other procedures at the hospital
it can run a year.
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