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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.
Hotel Playa Pesquero promoted beach dinners amid Cuba's power crisis. That same day, a hospital in Sagua de Tánamo reported blackouts 'day and night.'
Cuba's Health Minister tells AP: 5 million chronic patients affected, ambulances without fuel, hospitals without power.
About 3,000 kidney patients in Cuba face reduced sessions and no medical transport as the energy crisis deepens.
MINSAP reduces hospital staff, suspends surgeries, creates mobile brigades amid fuel shortage.