HAVANA, August 17 (Juan Carlos Linares, Cuba Voz) The Cuban Ministry of
Public Health has ordered family doctors to report all guests or boarders in
private homes to health authorities as part of the campaign to control the
spread of dengue fever, Public Health officials in the Arroyo Naranjo district
of Havana said.
"We were told that any person in the district that is not registered as
a patient of the nearest clinic has to be reported immediately to the
authorities," said one family doctor whose identity cannot be divulged.
As part of the Cuban health care system, every resident must register with
the nearest neighborhood clinic.
The announcement of the measure irked people here who saw it as another
extension of government control. "Now doctors will have to dedicate their
time to informing on who rented to a foreigner or who rented to a Cuban, when
what the Ministry has to do is improve the service to the population, which is
not free as the government would have you believe, but is paid for by the people
with their labor," said one irate Arroyo Naranjo resident.
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