Surgical Thread Made From the Cuban Sisal Plant
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HAVANA — Doctors in Cuba, seeking natural, local alternatives to costly medical imports, are using a surgical thread developed from the fibers of the island’s native sisal plant, the official newspaper Granma reported Tuesday.
Granma said the thread, produced from the plant known in Cuba as henequen , is the creation of a Cuban military doctor, Mario Gonzalez-Quevedo.
A small workshop in a military hospital in Havana is already producing quantities of the sisal thread, which Cuban surgeons have started using in some hospitals.
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