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Cuban doctors investigate
eye surgery problems
radiojamaica.com,
Jamaica, June 19, 2006.
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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