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Cuba’s Drug Crisis: Families Scour Black Market as Pharmacies Run Dry, Children’s Lives Hang in the Balance
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Cuba’s drug crisis: Families scour black market as pharmacies run dry, children’s lives hang in the balance
HAVANA, July 10 — Cuban Jessica Rodriguez never knows if she will find the medicines that keep her four-year-old son alive in a country that has all but run out of essential drugs. On a near daily basis she sprints from one state-run pharmacy to another on a quest for pills and syringes. Increasingly, she has to turn to the black market and pay the higher prices there. That is if they have what she needs. Rodriguez, who left her job as a physiot…
Havana, Cuba. While waiting for an oesophagus transplant for her four-year-old son, Cuba’s Jessica Rodriguez is waging a daily battle to get the medicine and medical supplies the child needs in a country where more than 70% of the basic drug chart is scarce. “I despair all the time just thinking that I don’t have something I need,” she explains to AFP Rodriguez, 27, in the living room of her home in Santa Fe, a neighborhood in western Havana. Ne…
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While waiting for an oesophagus transplant for her four-year-old son, Cuban Jessica Rodriguez is waging a daily battle to get the medicines and health supplies the child needs, in a country where there is more than 70 percent of the basic drug chart. “I despair all the time thinking that I don’t have anything I need,” explains Rodriguez, 27, in the living room of his home in Santa Fe, a neighborhood in western Havana. Next to him, little Luis An…
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