Another great achievement of Cuba’s socialist revolution and its highly-touted universal healthcare system that socialists like Bernie Sanders think the U.S. should emulate.
Via Martí Noticias (my translation):
Main hospitals on the island without the resources to provide medical attention: ‘Their patients are dying’
The shortage of essential supplies, medicine, and medical equipment as well as ambulances is causing the island’s health system crisis to worsen, including at the nation’s main hospitals.
Cubans living in several provinces gave Radio Martí their stories of how the lack of supplies at these health centers is preventing patients from receiving adequate medical care.
Odalis Ramirez, who is recovering from injures she received in an accident at her home in the town of Carlos Rojas in the Matanzas province, was taken to the General Pedro Betancourt Hospital in the city of Jovellanos during the morning on Monday.
She has a fractured wrist and she explained that the hospital told her that they did not have the resources to offer her medical attention. Furthermore, because there are no ambulances, the patient had to wait until six in the afternoon to be transported to the city of Matanzas, said her father-in-law Armando Abascal.
“At 5 PM they still had not put anything on wrist because they don’t have plaster for casts to immobilize her hand, which was the most important thing to do at the moment,” said Abascal.
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Leydis Tabares is warning about the dismal situation at the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Hospital in the city of Camaguey, where her husband was admitted.
“The doctors are leaving because the hospital doesn’t have the supplies or equipment for them to work and the patients are dying,” said Leydis.
Continue reading (in Spanish) HERE.
Wait, do these people actually think the lives of ordinary Cubans matter? Talk about clueless.