By Kamil Kenders
HAVANA TIMES – “Healthcare in Cuba is free, but it costs.” It’s a slogan coined by Public Health that I’ve heard since I was a child, and it refers to the fact that every examination carried out by the State costs a lot of money. It’s true, as is the significant collaboration of other countries with ours in terms of health. And by this, I mean equipment and hospital instruments. However, for some years now, the situation in our medical institutions has been worsening.
I’ve always been a person with health problems, especially when I was young, and I fondly remember all the healthcare personnel who attended to me during those years. Kind, polite, and with a great sense of humanitarianism, something that many of these white-coated workers lack nowadays, at least on this island where, unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of them.
The story of this post begins just over 15 days ago when a friend’s grandmother, 85 years old, fell in the street and fractured her hip. She was immediately taken to the nearest hospital, Carlos J. Finlay Hospital (a military h