In 2005, Cuba’s drug exports supposedly reached $300 million selling to Venezuela, China, Malaysia, Russia, India, Pakistan and other countries.
No wonder Cuban’s can’t get their prescriptions filled, and they’d better not complain about it either.
From Cubanet:
MORON, Cuba – October 4 (Tico Morales) – María Rosales was arrested, held for 24 hours, and fined 400 pesos after protesting at a pharmacy that couldn’t supply the insulin her 6-year-old daughter needs to treat her diabetes.
Rosales went to the pharmacy assigned to her in the town of Peonía, near Moron, at eight o-clock in the morning on Monday, with a doctor’s prescription. Pharmacy personnel told her they didn’t have any insulin, and referred her to another pharmacy.
Rosales went to the second pharmacy and waited her turn in line. When pharmacy employees informed her that they had run out of insulin, Rosales broke down crying, protesting the lack of medicines and blaming the government for the problem.
Pharmacy administrators called police, who took Rosales to a Morón police station, fined her 400 pesos for disorderly conduct and held her until the next day.
Meantime, her husband Evaristo, seeing she didn’t come home with the medicine, took the girl to the hospital, where doctors attended to her.
But-but, I thought health care was free and plentiful for Cubans. Could you imagine an American pharmacy that can’t keep stocked with insulin? It’s like a grocery store without apples. Wait–don’t tell me, Cuba has those, too.
How dare she question the ability of the Cuban government being able to provide the insulin. Is the “bloqueo” stupid!