-DATE- 19880408 -YEAR- 1988 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- REPORT -AUTHOR- F.CASTRO -HEADLINE- INAUGURATION - LENS CRAFT SHOP -PLACE- LA LISA -SOURCE- HAVANA TELEVISION SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19880411 -TEXT- Fidel Castro Inaugurates Lens Craft Shop FL081620 Havana Television Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 8 Apr 88 [Text] In Havana today, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, first secretary of the PCC and president of the Councils of State and Ministers, presided over the inauguration of the lens craft shop in La Lisa, the Arroyo Naranjo hemoderivates plant, and the 25th Avenue. [Begin Castro Recording] Comrades: Anyone could say we planned to inaugurate these projects on international health day. Nothing is further from the truth. It is a coincidence, a happy coincidence, of course. We had been thinking for days when to inaugurate them. Talking with Comrade Lezcano, we agreed to inaugurate it on a certain day. I believe it was said on Thursday and it so happened it was 7 April. So it appears to be in honor of international health day. This is not rare because here all days are health days. This is the truth. These are enormous services that the country can count on; this facility with a new workshop and the one [Julio; minister of public health] Teja mentioned that is being modernized in Las Villas. It will meet all the needs for eyeglasses and lenses in the country. I believe that when one thinks about all this one can appreciate the importance of this factory we have inaugurated today. The case is the same as regards hemoderivatives. There are many illnesses and treatments that require hemoderivative products. They either have to be imported or produced in the country. They are very expensive. Albumin and specific gamma globulin or polyvalent, as they call it, and a number of other products are used to treat many illnesses. Teja mentioned some. There is also a small research center at the hemoderivates plant. They not only produce but also conduct research. I talked with several comrades there who work with a lot of enthusiasm in the production of new products. This hemoderivates plant can also produce millions of dollars. We will be able to export around 40 percent of the production when we reach the capacity of 100,000 [not further specified] after broadly meeting our needs. In this way, we can save a few million dollars a year in order to continue with this process because all this costs a lot. We will have to work on this for some years if we really want to develop ourselves, if we really want to make progress, if we want to solve problems. I am not saying it will be forever but now, as we have said before, we have to recover lost time, more quickly, and show in fact a true cult of work. Definitely, a cult of work has to be shown. [applause] [end recording] -END-