During this year, around 20 patients have been operated per day, one of the most frequent ophthalmology diseases in adults, mainly in elders.

Ophthalmologists from the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Teaching Hospital of this city use the conventional surgery and other advanced technology procedures like the phacoemulsiphication, the usage of ultrasund to extract the lens.

The phacoemulsiphication combined with eximer laser, device that removes tissues with microscopic precision, is also used in these interventions.

Dr. Sureya Martínez Castro, in charge of cataract and refractive surgeries and cornea transplants, explained that there are good outcomes both in conventional and in advanced technology practices.

In 2014 more than 700 000 surgeries were made mainly in elders, showing a considerable improvement in their quality of life and a fast recovery thanks to the small incisions and foldable lens applied, she explained.

Dr. Martínez added that this intervention used to be done when the patient was practically blind, but new technologies allow to perform it before the disease, (presented in 60 or 80 percent of the elders in this city), seriously affects its carrier.

Cataract or loss of the lens transparency appears after the 5th decade of life and it is the first world cause of preventable blindness, emphasized the specialist and exhorted all the citizens to go to their primary health care services if they show any lack of visual activity.
 
Since its fundation in 2006 as a center and then as a department of the cited hospital, the ophtalmology office represents 25 percent of all the hospital surgeries, not only with the cataract program but also with the refractive surgeries of glaucoma, cornea transplant and others.

Translated by Yaumaris Pilliner Recio, student of English Language

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