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CUBA
Mother arrested after complaining at pharmacy
MORON, Cuba - October 4 (Tico Morales,
APLA / www.cubanet.org) - María Rosales
was arrested, held for 24 hours, and fined
400 pesos after protesting at a pharmacy
that couldn't supply the insulin her 6-year-old
daughter needs to treat her diabetes.
Rosales went to the pharmacy assigned to
her in the town of Peonía, near Moron,
at eight o-clock in the morning on Monday,
with a doctor's prescription. Pharmacy personnel
told her they didn't have any insulin, and
referred her to another pharmacy.
Rosales went to the second pharmacy and
waited her turn in line. When pharmacy employees
informed her that they had run out of insulin,
Rosales broke down crying, protesting the
lack of medicines and blaming the government
for the problem.
Pharmacy administrators called police,
who took Rosales to a Morón police
station, fined her 400 pesos for disorderly
conduct and held her until the next day.
Meantime, her husband Evaristo, seeing
she didn't come home with the medicine,
took the girl to the hospital, where doctors
attended to her.
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