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HAVANA, August 2 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - The ongoing
deterioration of public services in Guantánamo province is provoking
unrest among the people, who blame indolent government officials for the
problem.
Recently, residents were sold four ounces of meat derivatives which, they
say, were decomposing even as they were sold; they had a greenish color and
smelled rotten.
"What happens is that butcher shops don't have adequate refrigeration,
and employees try to store the meats in neighbors' homes, which don't have
sufficient capacity. People complain to the Popular Power [local government] and
the response is always the same: _'There are no resources to repair the
refrigerators,'" said Raisa Torres, a Guantánamo resident.
Another resident, Nora Herrera Matos, says her 14-year-old son was recently
diagnosed with kidney disease and told he needed a urinalysis. "I had to go
to the medical center at 2:00 a.m. to pick up the sample bottle and then I had
to deliver it to the pediatrician's office, outside the city. I had to walk all
the way because the bus is not running for lack of fuel."
Herrera says she arrived at the pediatrician's office a half hour after the
assigned time for sample deliveries, and even though the laboratory personnel
were there, they would not take the sample.
"I begged, I explained, but it was all in vain. They did not take the
sample, telling me they wouldn't take it until the next day," said Herrera.
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