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FROM
CUBA
Medicines scarce in Cuban pharmacies
HAVANA, March 23 (Dorka Céspedes,
Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org) - "We
have free medical care, even if it isn't
the best, but, what do we do if we don't
have medicines, which are the ones that
really cure us?" said Raúl García,
summing up the predicament Cuban patients
often face.
García said he had been suffering
from an upper respiratory infection and
had not been able to find medicine or vitamin
C in the drug stores.
Another man, Antonio López, said
he had had surgery recently but had not
been able to find the antibiotics prescribed
for him and was still running a fever.
At the pharmacy located at the corner of
San Rafael and Marqués González
Streets, in central Havana, which is where
the prescriptions of the showcase Hermanos
Ameijeiras hospital are filled, a clerk
said they had no antibiotics or pain relievers
because the "pharmaceutical industry
lacked a chemical ingredient."
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