Posted on 07/25/2005 8:00:09 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
Eight newborns died during the month of June in the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital in Havana.
Hospital employees suggested the cause was bacterial contamination, but there was no official confirmation.
At present, several hospital facilities, including operating rooms and neonatal intensive care wards are closed and are only available for emergency Caesarean sections.
The hospital director has since been replaced by another doctor coming from the América Arias maternity hospital in the Vedado district.
The Cuban government routinely asserts that the country's infant mortality rate is low. It touts the index as one of the accomplishments of the Communist regime.
Check out the reality of "free" Cuban healthcare in these large collection of photos. (Warning: do not view on a full stomach):
http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm
http://www.therealcuba.com/page3.htm
http://www.therealcuba.com/two_cubas.htm
Yeah, but where are the bacteria? I don't see any bacteria in those photos.
What you see in the photos is actually not that bad. The roaches are dead, aren't they?
I hear that Fidel has sent a contingent of highly trained medical personnel to Venezuela to help provide health care to Chavez's subjects. It's another case of "from each, according to his ability, to each, according to his need."
Doctors in Venezuela say the Cuban doctors are a political tool:
But it's free!
I would think that Venezuelan doctors probably have more training and experience than doctors throughout most of Latin America. And I am sure that there are plenty of jobs for doctors in America. If they move to Miami, they won't even have to speak English.
I'm trying to figure out what the first photo is. Is that where the surgeon cleans his scalpel?
I'm sooo glad sHillary wants us to enjoy this universal 'care'. Naturally, her care will be received at the one or 2 elite places that serve important people of her stature. Us peons understand, we want only the best for our leaders, they deserve it. /sarcasm
You don't want to know.
This is exactly what the Clintons had in mind.
Check out "The two Cubas," one for tourists and the ruling Commie Elite.... and one for Cubas. Health care is at the bottom of the scroll.
http://www.therealcuba.com/two_cubas.htm
bttt
You wouldn't know any differce if Hillary was telling us how great this is.
And this is all you will hear in 2008.
Thanks for the link. Shocking to see how real Cubans live, or subsist is a better word. We've been joking for some time about the Potemkin Cuba that makes TV here in the US. I was truly shocked then to see FoodTV's 'special' on Hemingway's Cuba presented by Mariel Hemingway. Gee, what a lovely...bit of propaganda. It should be so nice for all, isn't that the commie way?
I'm looking for the link that illustrates how other universal care systems require one to bring their own tp and bandaids and blankets, etc. Yep, a wonderful plan, shame we don't buy into it.
I watched that piece of !@#% on Sat. night. The Food network should be ashamed. All that food, and the locals ge what- A few ounces of rice & beans?
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If they're lucky and don't complain. I watched, too, on sat nite. I was appalled. And Mariel's condescending little barbs, just a couple, about the embargo and how so many other countries allow tourism. Blah, blah, blah. I hope she enjoyed her Potemkin tour. Although, who knows? Perhaps, as Hemingway's granddaughter, she feels herself to be one of the elite deserving such a special tour. I hope not. Regular Cubans did not live in such misery when Hemingway was a writer there and they still had faith and hope and freedom. He wrote about regular Cubans. It's a new low for TV and especially for foodtv.
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Real Cuban typical kitchen:
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