Due to the experience gained in Cuba with more than two centuries of medical services, Cuban health services and especially ophthalmology, have gained national and international prestige, not only for the high scientific quality. fictive and technical nature of the human capital that participates but for the reliability and ethics of the same who, based on the clinical method, prescribe the indispensable means for a truthful diagnosis, free of profits at the expense of unnecessary medical services.
Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology Ramón Pando Ferrer constitutes the national and international reference center for the specialty of Ophthalmology and the governing center of the teaching with prestigious specialists and professors whose knowledge and experiences can be exchanged with national and international specialists.
Medical care includes diagnosis, treatment and surgical solutions. Emergency, outpatient and inpatient services are offered.
It is equipped with cutting-edge technology where the most modern examinations are performed for the diagnosis of different ophthalmological conditions as well as such as the application of novel surgical techniques.
As the governing center of the specialty, the hospital constitutes the basis for exchange with international projects such as ORBIS and which collaborate in the National Program for the Prevention of Blindness, governed by specialists from the center and which is part of the international initiative to the prevention and control of blindness known as "Vision 20/20 The Right to See" promoted by the WHO. The causes of blindness are adjusted by their frequency of occurrence to those reported as most frequent by the WHO for developing countries. Cataract is the main cause of blindness followed by glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.
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