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May 31, 2002



FROM CUBA

Broken bones no longer justification for medical transportation

CABAÑAS, May 29 (Moisés Rodríguez Valdés, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) - Residents of the settlement adjacent to the ‘Pablo de la Torriente Brau’ sugar mill who break a bone will no longer be eligible to be transported in the car used previously for the purpose, after a local government official determined that "there isn’t enough fuel" to continue offering the service.

The Popular Power delegate, Vicente Sáez, told electors of the measure at the May 18 year-end meeting.

Until recently, patients needing transportation to the municipal hospital were taken there in a Soviet-made Lada car which belongs to the sugar mill’s medical service. Some were even taken to Havana, if specialists determined it was necessary.

Now patients with broken bones have to make their own arrangements to be transported to the hospital.


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