Teresa entered the operation room nervous, but confident. The surgery barely lasted about 15 minutes and she only was thinking in one thing: to see the face of her grandchild with each and every one of his features and so, she can. 

The light came to her eyes and it was like coming back to life, they say well by calling it Operation Miracle, although it does not come for the providence but from the decency of the men who made us worthy, free or equal, Teresa says once recovered at home.

The cataract and other eye impairments are being treated in Mayabequesince, a time ago, those are services paid for the welfare of the people, because there is no need to move to other provinces of the country.

There are thousands of cases, like Teresa’s, they go to consultation, they carry out the corresponding examinations, they fix the date of the operation and the matter is solved.

Nobody here is surprised for these actions, because it is true that when the extraordinary becomes a daily routine, everything seems normal, but that simple operation costs, an expense assumed by the Cuban state because man is the center of its interest and the health is a right.

In other places, several people have these conditions and are condemned to live in the darkness because they do not have the resources to pay for the cure, valued at thousands of pesos.

These things have to be thought about and estimated because they are here, they are our reality and we do not always considerate them. Everything that is done today to solve the problems and deficiencies because we have them is in defense of a country that, as Martí dreamed, works with everyone and for the good of all.

We must endeavor to make sustainable justice, that which restored Teresa's vision and the joy of living without asking anything in return.

his woman can already see not only the face of her beloved grandson, but everything that surrounds her and then defies more strongly the difficulties of the everyday life.

We must protect everything that has been achieved in terms of health, for that and other reasons it is worth defending the Revolution at all costs.

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