HAVANA, January 5 (María Elena Rodríguez, Cuba-Verdad) – "It
was incredible; I could see how desperately Dr. Danielis Avalo was trying to
locate an ambulance. It was necessary to transport the patient to a hospital so
that his leg wouldn’t have to be amputated."
Antonio Pérez was talking about the case of Favio García, 41,
who had been taken to the polyclinic in Managua, in the outskirts of Havana,
where Dr. Avalo was only able to render first aid. García had a compound
fracture of the femur just above the knee and needed attention at a hospital.
After one hour and many entreaties, Dr. Avalo managed to get the ambulance
from the Lenin vocational school to transport García, although at first,
they had said the ambulance had problems with the lights. The central ambulance
dispatcher said there were no ambulances available, and the polyclinic’s
own is inoperative. The situation is the same in other areas of the Cuban
capital.
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