HAVANA, May 9 (Carmelo Díaz Fernández, APSIC) – A five
hour delay in getting to the hospital cost a new mother her baby in a remote
area of Guantánamo province, eastern Cuba, due to the lack of an
ambulance that would take her there.
Alianne de la Cruz, 15, started having contractions at about six in the
evening in her home town of Paraguay, Guantánamo, but it took until 11
p.m. for an ambulance to take her to the "Agostino Neto" provincial
hospital.
"By the time doctors at the hospital saw her, she had already lost the
baby," said Eusebio Rey, of the Consejo Unitario de Trabajadores Cubanos.
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