PINAR DEL RIO, May 2 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) - The township of Minas, in Pinar del Río province, has no ambulance. Or rather, the one they have, donated by foreigners some time ago, is broken and there are no spare parts to repair it. As a result, patients in need of transportation have to wait, sometimes for hours.

"When an ambulance gets here from another town, it cannot go back until there are three patients to transport. There have been cases of patients that had to wait for as long as ten hours to be taken to the hospital," said Joaquín Piloto Cabrera, of the independent workers' organization Consejo Unitario de Trabajadores Cubanos.

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