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FROM
CUBA
Four
Cuban physicians resign to protest on-call
assignment
HAVANA, Cuba, November 1 (www.cubanet.org)
- Four general medicine practitioners submitted
their resignations from the René
Vedia polyclinic in Santiago de las Vegas,
a town south of Havana, to protest their
permanent assignment to the on-call roster
due to a scarcity of physicians.
Drs. Raúl Durán, Santiago
Román, a Dr. Carballo and a fourth
one, submitted their resignations to administrators
at the polyclinic, according to Lucía
Carvajal, a town resident. She added that
several medical offices around town don't
have a doctor available, because a number
of them have been sent to Venezuela to work.
"It's good to help sick people wherever
they may be, but you have to think of yourself
first," said Carvajal.
Carvajal said that Dr. Mirella Sánchez
was trying to cover the night shifts at
the polyclinic by herself.
"Public health in Cuba is free, but
this is the price those of us who live here
have to pay," she said.
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