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FROM
CUBA
Rural Cuban hospital suffers transportation
woes
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, January 14 (Andrés
Rodríguez, Cubanacán Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Personnel at the Jibacoa
rural hospital started 2005 without a means
of transportation to reach the hospital.
To boot, the ambulance the hospital used
to have, which caught fire at the end of
last year, has not been replaced.
The hospital, in the mountains of Villa
Clara province about 50 kilometers (about
30 miles) from the provincial capital, has
been declared a priority concern by government
health authorities. But medical and other
qualified personnel, about 40 in all, must
come from Manicaragua, 18 kilometers (about
10 miles) away. The municipal government,
which used to bus them in, has recently
stopped doing so, citing lack of fuel as
the cause.
Now workers are left to their own devices
in getting to work. Some of them complain
that other governmental entities, such as
the Jibacoa Forestry Enterprise, and educational
authorities, refuse to transport them in
their trucks or buses. To make matters worse,
they say, these entities are beneficiaries
of the services the hospital provides.
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