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Public health "precarious" en eastern town
HOLGUIN, Cuba - July 21 (Liannis Meriño
Aguilera, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org)
- Residents of the municipality of Antilla,
in Holguín province, call the public
health situation in their community "precarious,"
citing the scarcity of doctors and medicines.
José Ramón Herrera, a local
resident and political activist said the
local hospital does not have personnel in
several specialties, including cardiology,
gynecology, and otorhinolaryngology.
The town of about 10,000 inhabitants formerly
had 21 facilities for the practice of family
medicine, and now has only three which operate
irregularly, said Herrera. He said the doctors
who worked in the town have since been sent
abroad by the government.
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