MAYABEQUE, Cuba. – More than nine hundred deafblind people live in Cuba, and centers and special schools take care of them.

In a meeting held at the Cultural Society Jose Marti in San Jose de las Lajas, the national coordinator of the National Association of the Blind, Reynaldo Romeu Mendez, referred to the advances of the deafblind since 1995 in social insertion.

At the meeting Dr. Olga Lidia Vicente Perez, head of the auditory program, pointed out the use of hearing aids, as well as the cochlear implant, already applied to more than thirty children.

This issue will be highlighted next June 27, International Day of Deafblindness in the national act in the province of Granma, where more people with disabilities are in Cuba.