2023-08-07 11:05:09
By Hector Lemieux
Posted yesterday at 4:30 p.m., Updated 11 hours ago
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REPORT – Recipes from foreign countries hosting health professionals from the Castro island are essential.
In Havana
At the end of the Malecon, Havana’s long seafront, not far from the United States Embassy, the Camilo-Cienfuegos clinic specializes in the treatment of eye diseases. A young administrative executive rails against his antediluvian computer, whose software is slow to issue an invoice. The ophthalmological consultation here costs 45 dollars, payable only in hard currency. Suffice to say that it is inaccessible for the vast majority of Cubans. Health has deteriorated a lot in recent years, due to the economic crisis, the pandemic, the disorganization of the regime and also the increasingly powerful embargo of the United States. Even for us Cubans, if we want to be well cared for, we have to give a “regalito” (small gift) to the doctor, whereas health is supposed to be free in Cuba. To have my mother operated on for a hernia, I will have to pay the surgeon $100. And it will not be the best since the good doctors are on mission abroad”, is indignant…
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