Cuba Health Crisis: Critical Medicine Shortage in Hospitals
Lack of medical supplies and essential drugs reach critical levels in Cuba, affecting hospitals and forcing residents to the informal market.
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Lack of medical supplies and essential drugs reach critical levels in Cuba, affecting hospitals and forcing residents to the informal market.
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health admits for the first time a critical deterioration due to lack of supplies, fuel for ambulances, and blackouts.
Cuba's Health Minister tells AP: 5 million chronic patients affected, ambulances without fuel, hospitals without power.
Since 2021, Cuba has lost 2 million residents to emigration. Infant mortality nearly tripled. A collapse that goes far beyond Trump's policies.
About 3,000 kidney patients in Cuba face reduced sessions and no medical transport as the energy crisis deepens.
Lack of first-line medications forces doctors to use alternative treatments. Medical staff fights to maintain care quality amid crisis.
The Cuban government closes universities, reduces school hours, limits hospital surgeries, and shortens the work week amid the fuel crisis.
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