PINAR DEL RIO, May 2 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) - The township of
Minas, in Pinar del Río province, has no ambulance. Or rather, the one
they have, donated by foreigners some time ago, is broken and there are no spare
parts to repair it. As a result, patients in need of transportation have to
wait, sometimes for hours.
"When an ambulance gets here from another town, it cannot go back until
there are three patients to transport. There have been cases of patients that
had to wait for as long as ten hours to be taken to the hospital," said
Joaquín Piloto Cabrera, of the independent workers' organization Consejo
Unitario de Trabajadores Cubanos.
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