Health in Cuba: apart from
the impressive achievements.
By Paulino Alfonso Estevez.
It is true that in
comparison with African countries and many in Latin America and Asia, in terms
of health, Cuba can show impressive achievements, which are presented by the
propaganda of the regime as one of the greatest achievements of the revolution.
However, in public health
in Cuba, beyond the impressive achievements, there are enough abandonment and
neglect. Suffice it to recall that in January 2010, in the Psychiatric Hospital
of Mazorra, died of hunger and cold in 26 patients.
The Castro regime, in
Exchange for money and political purposes, diverted to other countries health
care, to the detriment of the Cuban people.
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Patients who died on the
Psychiatric Hospital of malnutrition and cold.
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Since 2002, only for
medical services, the Cuban regime has received 120 000 000 $ of the Venezuelan
Government.
It also receives annually 2
500 000 dollars on the part of other more than 30 Governments also staffed by
Cuban doctors.
No country in the third
world has received such amount of money for the export of human resources.
Despite this avalanche of
money giving the exportation of medical and paramedical, the Cuban people live,
as saying the Spanish, to two servings, of hunger and need.
A few years ago, as
reported to the Communist Party by the then Minister of health, José Ramón
Balaguer, in Havana there was 300 closed clinics because "their doctors
were in Venezuela or other countries".In the other provinces had nearly
500 clinics closed.
For 20 years the regime not
dealt with repair of clinics, polyclinics and hospitals. 5 years ago decided to
undertake partial repairs (have only made an overhaul in the Hospital
"Calixto García", in El Vedado).
Six years ago, a Prince of Saudi
Arabia donated 30 million dollars for the reconstruction of the children's
Hospital "Pedro Borras", Vedado. But it seems that this donation was
used in another thing, because what was that children's hospital is now a heap
of ruins. ( Microsoft translator)
Read in Spanish: AQUI
Source: Primavera digital.
