HAVANA, August 10 (Carmelo Díaz Fernández, APSIC) - Almost
half a million residents of the eastern Cuban province of Granma are without
effective medical care.
Conditions at the children's hospital and at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
general hospital, both in the provincial capital of Bayamo, conspire against the
best efforts of dedicated medical personnel.
The hospitals' capacity is not sufficient for the province's population. The
hallways at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes are now routinely littered with
beds and patients cannot be isolated according to the nature of their disease.
There is also an indefinite-time waiting list for surgery, mostly
attributable to shortages of anaesthetics, pain killers, IV solutions, X-ray
films and other medicines and materials.
"Patients with confirmed diagnoses, who need immediate surgery, have to
wait their turn," said a trustworthy source.
The patients' diet is insufficient and of the worst quality. It generally
consists of a liquid called soup and rice.
As far as bed linens, towels and patient gowns, the service is non-existent;
hospital linens are dirty and torn, so patients provide their own from home.
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