HAVANA, October 31 (Edel José García, CNP / CubaNet) - At
least 100 cases of leptospirosis have been reported in the western Cuban
province of Pinar del Río.
"The patients are admitted to the Cuervo Rubio hospital, but people are
alarmed because there are no medicines to combat the disease," said
Normando Pimentel, a human rights activist in the province.
Pimentel added that conditions are so bad that residents have taken to
calling the ward where patients are admitted at the hospital "Ward Eight,"
a reference to the title of a horror film in which patients arrived at a
hospital only to be killed there.
Medical sources said they really don't have the necessary medicines to treat
the epidemic. "If the mice had been controlled, if we had done a good job
with sanitation, we wouldn't have the disease to contend with," said one
specialist.
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