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FROM
CUBA
All 10 medical dispensaries in community
closed for lack of doctors
HAVANA, June 12 (Ernesto Roque Cintero
/ www.cubanet.org) -The 10 medical dispensaries
attached to the Pablo de la Torriente sugar
mill in Bahía Honda, Pinar del Río
province, have been closed since the doctors
that used to work in them were shipped off
to Venezuela to assist in a joint Cuban-Venezuelan
government program.
The closings affect some 15,000 residents
of Bahía Honda. "We have to
travel up to 13 kilometers (8 miles), the
lines at the polyclinic are very long, and
there are only two doctors who work 24-hour
shifts each. The last time I was there,
there were approximately 50 patients waiting
for one of them, Dr. Osmany Domínguez",
said Abigail García, a local resident.
"We don't even have a dentist",
she said.
García said that in some of the
dispensaries, and cited the one at I and
52 Streets, the nurse has been kept on,
but is not seeing patients. "I imagine
they kept her sitting there, collecting
a salary, so that homeless people don't
move in, as has happened at some of the
closed offices".
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