June 24, 2005
Take no aspirins and call me in the morning...
Cubans arent allowed to get headaches anymore:
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba -June 22 (Luis Miguel González, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Aspirins have disappeared from Cienfuegos' pharmacies in the last few months.Enrique Toledo, a resident of the Pueblo Grifo subdivision, learned recently that there haven't been any aspirins sold in local pharmacies after he went looking himself. He said he has to take aspirin daily for a cardiac condition.
"If I don't find the medicine, my health will get worse," he said.
Toledo said that visiting several pharmacies, he was repeatedly told to look for aspirin in the hard currency pharmacies, a suggestion he found insulting, as he doesn't have access to hard currency.
A man who works in the medicine warehouse in Cienfuegos, who asked that his name not be used, said the reason there are no aspirins in the local pharmacies is that lately the stocks have been shipped to Venezuela, Haiti, and Perú.
Posted by Val Prieto at June 24, 2005 06:13 AM
Comments
You can imagine what happens to all those medecine donations...
Posted by: Eleggua at June 24, 2005 09:58 AM
Yeah, but at least they have "balleta's de trapear" right? ;-)
Posted by: Songuacassal at June 24, 2005 03:04 PM
you guys dont get it. in castro's cuba, they eradicated head aches and cardiac problems. there is no need for aspirin. the miracles of castro's healthcare!
Posted by: tony v at June 24, 2005 09:29 PM
They are sending them to those countries because once they get cagastro's "advisers" in there, their headaches will begin in earnest.
Posted by: cohetedude at June 25, 2005 01:00 AM
They have plenty of aspirin in Peru and Venezuela. This is insane!
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at June 25, 2005 03:41 PM