The Government of Chubut, through the provincial Health Secretariat, highlighted an important ophthalmological surgery that was recently performed on a ten-year-old boy, who had congenital cataracts in both eyes, at the “Dr. Andrés Ísola” from Puerto Madryn.
The pediatric ophthalmology team evaluated the possibility of performing the intervention to improve the quality of the patient’s vision, “and in this way, one eye was operated on and, later, the other will be operated on,” explained ophthalmologist Julián Sahagun, who led the intervention together with his colleague Julia Korth.
Trained medical team
This is a practice that, although common, requires a trained medical team to perform it. In this sense, on this occasion it was possible to achieve this since the Puerto Madryn Hospital has the specialists and the operating room equipment is adapted for this purpose.
“In our hospital we have all of this, so it could be resolved here, avoiding a referral to a more complex center,” highlighted Julián Sahagun.
Likewise, the Ministry of Health highlighted the articulated work of the health personnel of the healthcare establishment, both from the Surgical Department and the Ophthalmology Service, who carried out this procedure on a child for the first time, which has great value, since which will improve the patient’s visual development and quality of life.
