About 150 persons at Paramakatoi have been screened for eye ailments as part of a countrywide exercise to create a database for surgeries to be done at the National Ophthalmology Hospital.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release a team including two Cuban ophthalmologists visited the Region Eight community to screen villagers. Minister within the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said the screening at Paramakatoi falls under the government’s efforts to provide healthcare to indigenous persons.
The minister said too that now that the Mission Miracle programme has come to a close the ministry will start surgeries at the Port Mourant hospital next month. Eye screening is being done at the Diamond, Leonora, Mahaicony and Suddie diagnostic centres and at the hospital in order to detect ailments.
