http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/mayo/vier12/21laborat.html
Cuba to acquire new laboratories for genetic medicine
CUBA is to acquire 12 new laboratories for genetic population studies,
announced Doctor Beatriz Marcheco, director of the National Center for Genetic
Medicine, during the TV and radio "Roundtable" program attended by President
Fidel Castro.
The "Roundtable" program included
the presence of President Fidel Castro.
(Jorge Luis Rodríguez)
Doctor Marcheco explained that these facilities will expand the center's
ability to investigate Downs Syndrome and mental retardation in the early
stages of pregnancy.
Cuba already has an equal number of laboratories for cytogenetics, which
have supported the program of diagnostics, management and prevention of those
pathologies and defects transmitted from parents to children.
During the "Roundtable" discussion, prominent individuals in Cuban
medicine participating in the 1st Congress of Community Genetics meeting in
Havana showed the persistent efforts by geneticists who are working for better
quality of life for the people.
The examples abound for demosntrating the value of the island's medical
system, which is capable of carrying out unprecedented feats, such as cochlear
implants for 53 children (35 deaf and 18 deaf-mute), in spite of the fact that
each operation costs about $50,000.
Doctor Odalis Batista, of Ciénaga de Zapata, and Doctor Juan Miguel
Barrero, of Holguín, described as very positive the studies carried out by the
Cuban state with the goal of better treatment for people with those severe
limitations.
That analysis throughout the island in 2003 made it possible to determine
that factors such as alcoholism, kinship, and environmental problems influence
on children's chromosomal disparities, to the extent of being born with severe
disorders.
Antonio Paz, one of the Cuban surgeons to have performed the cochlear
implants, noted the role of the multidisciplinary group that is participating
in those operations to improve the conditions of these children, and emphasized
that Cuba is an advanced position in that discipline worldwide.
More than 140 years after Austrian Juan Gregorio Mendel discovered the
mysteries of genetics, the Cuban Revolution has carried out one of its most
noble projects, and achieved results as incredible as giving hearing to the
deaf and eyes to the blind. (AIN)
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