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FROM
CUBA
Patient asks for visa to Venezuela because
his doctor's there
HAVANA, October 6 (Ernesto Roque Cintero,
UPECI / www.cubanet.org)- An ailing patient
hung a sign outside his residence in Old
Havana last week seeking permission to travel
to Venezuela to see his doctor who was sent
there under a Cuban-Venezuelan exchange
agreement.
Juan Pita Page, 72, said his doctor was
unable to operate on him for a vision problem
because he was dispatched to Venezuela along
with other doctors.
Pita's sign said: "A transfer to Venezuela
needed as the doctor who was going to operate
on me is there."
A neighbor said that minutes after the
sign was placed, the area police chief,
the head of the block committee, a representative
of Poder Popular and a family doctor were
on the scene. They promised that Pita´s
condition would be looked after.
Some 10,000 Cuban doctors have been sent
to Venezuelan under an agreement between
Fidel Castro and Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavez.
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