Cuban health care system pictures:
therealcuba.com
Many, many photos like this at the site above:
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Now, compare the facilities above with "La Pradera International Health Center," one of the
health facilities built by Castro for the exclusive use of those foreigners who can pay him
with hard currency.
Many foreigners still believe that the facilities used by regular Cubans are the same as the
those that they use and when they return to their countries they help spread Castro's lies and
propaganda about the "excellent free healthcare" that Cubans receive.
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"But at least the healthcare is free"
Photos courtesy of Bitacora Cubana
Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Director of the Juan Bruno Zayas Health and Human Rights Center in Havana, sent these photos of Yamilet Fernandez Donate, a 32 year old Cuban woman who almost died after complaining last November 27 of abdominal pain and entering one of Havana's hospitals for Cubans. At the time, Mrs. Fernandez was six weeks pregnant and wasn't suffering from any diagnosed illness. She entered the Hospital Nacional in Havana where she was given intravenous analgesics and was sent home when the pain subsided.
A few hours later, Yamilet's abdominal pain got much worse and she was also running a fever. She went to the Hijas de Galicia Maternity Hospital. There she was told that her pain was not related to her pregnancy and that she should see the surgeon on duty at the Miguel Enriques Hospital. In there, she was told that she was suffering from Acute Gastritis and the doctors recommended a gastric suction (stomach pumping or gastric lavage) and after the procedure she was told to go home that everything was now OK.
When Yamilet got much worse, her family took her to the Julio Trigo Hospital. Once there, the doctors told her that what she really had was an Urinary Infection and said that the best thing was to send her back to the Hospital Nacional. In the next couple of days Yamilet's health got much worse. She was in constant pain and running a high fever. She was vomiting, had muscular fatigue and even fainted several times. After the family kept complaining, the doctors decided to operate the poor woman and they finally determined that she had a perforated appendix, peritonitis and an intestinal occlusion.
After the operation she spent several days in the intensive care unit and later had to have another surgery due to several complications that resulted from the first one. Several days later the doctors told her that they had to perform an abortion. At the end, and because of the negligence of her doctors, Yamilet lost her baby and also portions of her intestine and colon. She also has very ugly scars on her abdomen to remind her of the pain and suffering that she had to endure at the hands of these butchers dressed as doctors. Castro has sent thousands of Cuban doctors to Venezuela and many other countries of South America and Africa. And now Cubans who get sick have to endure not only the lack of medicines, but also the lack of qualified medical practitioners. Of course, those 'doctors' don't have to worry about a malpractice lawsuit since they work for the Cuban regime and the victims don't have any right to complain about their "free healthcare." Next time that you hear one of Castro's apologists saying that Cubans receive "excellent free healthcare" show them Yamilet's photos and the story of what she went through.
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Nine years ago, I spent a couple of weeks just wandering around Cuba (no tourist destinations and no "minder") I didn't visit any hospitals but, in a provincial city, I hired an MD on his days off to drive me around in his ancient and decrepit Lada. He admitted that the 100 bucks I gave him for 3 days car and driver was equivalent to his salary for four months.
I visited a few drugstores in search of band-aids
(no luck) and observed that there was almost no stock of anything in any of them. I would have liked to talk to a pharmacist but found only bored clerks swatting flies and putting in time.
Not a condemnation of the entire system but certainly illustrative of the general situation.
BTW (and this is off topic) I saw a few children who were obviously suffering from malnutrition in the workers' paradise. And yes, I know malnutrition when I see it, having spent several years working in the third world.
Posted by: Lee
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