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FROM
CUBA
Seven prescriptions and not one filled
Richard Roselló
HAVANA, May (www.cubanet.org) - Dr. Dulce
Leonor Torres slapped her hand to her forehead;
she had just written seven prescriptions
for an older patient and not one had been
filled: the medicines were not available
in the pharmacy.
Lupe Rabala, 75, who suffers from diabetes,
hypertension, arthritis, and nervous disorders,
said she is tired of hearing "we don't
have..."
Yet the government guarantees her the medicines
needed for her treatment, as the ration
card she recently received attests.
"It's a contradiction," she says.
"How is it possible that they run out
of a medicine that I have guaranteed by
the card? Where do these medicines go? To
the black market, to the resellers! There,
you can buy it for 15 times its price. They
have everything that they don't have at
the pharmacy."
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