Resources scarce in hospitals

Resources scarce in hospitals

Marilyn Díaz Fernández, Lux Info Press

CAMAGÜEY, Cuba - October (www.cubanet.org) - Cuban hospitals have become
decrepit places with leaks and peeling paint and so few resources that
patients take their own from home.

Typically, patients take sheets, towels, eating utensils and a bucket
for water.

Now, in the latest wrinkle, visitors are finding there are few if any
chairs for them to sit.

A woman visiting her niece in the maternity hospital in Camagüey said
she got into an argument with a nurse who asked her not to sit in the
patient's bed. The nurse, she said, told her in other hospitals people
take in their own chairs to sit.

In another instance, two women were seen fighting for a chair. "Don't
worry," said one bystander. "There are no chairs. I don't know what they
did with them, but there are no chairs. Any time now we are going to
have to provide the bed for the patient."

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