Mother arrested after complaining at pharmacy

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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