HAVANA TIMES – I went to visit a friend and find her still dealing with the same problem: she needs to have some cysts surgically removed, but the hospital isn’t doing operations. It’s a situation that began when we had to face COVID in 2020. Only operations that are urgent are being done legally. There are all kinds of other surgeries being done, but those aren’t “legal,” so you must pay for them, and they’re expensive. I don’t know what to tell my friend, we’ve spoken so much about the matter.
She tells me that the situation is unbearable – when will this bedlam end? I decide not to tell her about the other day, when I went to the house of a friend who’s a painter. He talked about the same situation. What they succeeded in doing in his case, after some scary moments.
He had gone to see a doctor about his hernia, and the response was the same – they’re not operating because they don’t have supplies. So, he asked if they could do it, with him supplying the materials needed. They told him yes and made a list for him of everything that was needed.
He then went to a place in Holguín’s San Fiel district, where they sell everything from the tiniest items to anything imaginable. Howeve
