HAVANA, March 30 (Carlos Castro Álvarez, Grupo de Trabajo Decoro) - The lack of basic supplies such as the distilled water needed to dilute medications is affecting patients in the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños, in Havana province.

The crisis is affecting patients who need intramuscular injections which require dilution, such a penicilin. These patients have to go on the black market where they can obtain the water at five pesos a bottle.

Demands presented to the public health authorities have not produced any results. Health officials justify the scarcity saying that "there are difficulties manufacturing the glass ampules in which to distribute the water due to the rigid economic blockade of the United States against Cuba; that's why we are in the special period."

Notwithstanding, in the medical facilities that render service to foreigners there is no scarcity of any medication.

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