Havana, Cuba: In just four days, from Thursday 7 to Sunday, November 10, the American humanitarian organization Operation Walk carried out 56 prosthetic hip and knee replacements to 44 Cuban patients, of which 12 needed double interventions, Cubadebate publishes.

Since 1997, this group of volunteer doctors came from the United States to bring Cuba the gift of mobility through joint replacement surgeries that change people's lives at no cost, and also do so to work as a team, teach and learn, renowned nurse Jeri Ward, executive director of Operation Walk, says.

“My mind is in Los Angeles, but my heart belongs to Cuba,” confesses the “lady in charge,” as her team affectionately calls her. “On the first trip, I came fearful and the patients were also afraid of me, but they understood that we were coming to help and train Cuban doctors. Since then, we always come back. ”

"It is the first time in this hospital and it was wonderful," says the nurse of the prominent American surgeon Dr. Lawrence D. Dorr, Honorary Member of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SCOT) and founder of Operation Walk.

Since 1996, this organization, based in Los Angeles, served more than 17,000 patients in 25 countries, performed 100 missions and trained 18 work teams specialized in joint-related ailments.

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