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April 13, 2001



FROM CUBA

Hospital patients carry their own water if they wish to wash

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April 11 (Luis Alberto Rivera, APLO) - Patients admitted to the fourth floor wards at the "Celia Sánchez Manduley" hospital in Manzanillo have to carry buckets of water up two flights of stairs if they want to wash themselves. The buckets are not standard hospital issue, so they have to bring them from home.

The "Celia Sánchez Manduley" is the main hospital in Manzanillo, a medium-sized city in eastern Granma province. A worker at the hospital said the pump that boosts water pressure has been broken for three years, so only the first two stories have running water.

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