Ouch!!!! Visiting a Cuban Hospital

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Ouch!!!! Visiting a Cuban Hospital

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 Michael Moore praises the Cuban hospitals in his latest crockumentary "Sicko". He say its Free! Well Cyber ink has some testimonials from Cubans on the island and in MIami. Now of course some do not want us to divulge their identity for fear of losing their food rations or worse getting that dreaded knock on the door and thrown in a Cuban jail with no Human Rights.
     The first person we spoke to was not afraid to reveal his identity his name
is Arnaldo Gutierez, he now lives in Miami and only had this to say. " when i had my Appendicitis there was no ambulance,  they threw me in the back of a wooden wheel barrel and rushed me to Carlos J. Finlay Hospital", Carlos J. Finlay  was the first to theorize in 1881 that a mosquito was the way by which yellow fever was transmitted.
      Arnaldo also says he had to take his own bed sheets, needles (for fear of
 HIV), and food. He said the room was filthy and had to take a fan because the heat was unbearable. To go to the Hospital for government officials he would of had to pay. Which no average Cuban can do without help from family members in Miami.
      Some of our sources in the Holguin province say because of lack of detergent they have been using toothpaste to clean hospital linens, One unnamed doctor said "It’s nauseating the situation places even the health of hospital personnel at risk due to poor disinfection.

By way of contrast, hospitals in the area attending to foreign patients have all the necessary resources to properly wash and disinfect linens. (Cubanet).
 from our source (The Real Cuba) we get this "  One of the greatest fallacies about the so called 'Cuban Revolution' has to do with healthcare.

Foreigners who visit Cuba, are fed the official line from Castro's propaganda machine: "All Cubans are now able to receive excellent healthcare, which is also free." But the truth is very different. Castro has built excellent health facilities for the use of foreigners, who pay with hard currency for those services.

Argentinean soccer star Maradona, for example, has traveled several times to Cuba to receive treatment to combat his drug addiction. But Cubans are not even allowed to visit those facilities. Cubans who require medical attention must go to other hospitals, that lack the most minimum requirements needed to take care of their patients.

In addition, most of these facilities are filthy and patients have to bring their own towels, bed sheets, pillows, or they would have to lay down on dirty bare mattresses stained with blood and other body fluid'.
   We got this from (The Cigar Lounge) " an acquaintance in CA, and I sometimes mule some stuff down for his friend. She got sick and went from 120 lbs to 80 lbs. Did not have the energy to get out of bed. She went to 2 cuban hospitals (remember that Hermanos Almejeiras Hospital is for foreigners). Both of the cuban doctors said that nothing major was wrong and each told her the same treatment........ eat quail eggs. Yep that's right.... quail eggs. My friend found out about all this and paid to get her into Hermanos Almejeiras Hospital, and the doctor there looked at the chart and immediately saw she had a particular parasite from the water and they started treatments".
Hermanos Almejeiras Hospital is sometimes considered as a free hospital when it is really a dollar hospital. It is for foreigners and you need to pay some money (much much less than the US of course) for services. It is not free to everyone. Of course, being a government hospital, they can provide free services to who they want, but for normal folk, there is a charge.
         As for all those Celebrities and Gays who are so concerned about those infected with HIV we get this.
A patient at an AIDS sanatorium in Menocal, Havana province, complained here that sanitation at the facility is so poor that it imperils patients' lives.
"The water is contaminated with trash, stones, and leaves. The tanks are not cleaned and neither is the drinking water boiled. One can often see cats, dogs, and even cattle ambling through the kitchens and dining area," said Frank Leal.
Leal, who said he had been struck with diarrhea along with other patients recently, pointed out a sample of what he said was the sugar used at the hospital. It was noticeably contaminated with foreign particles.
There are more than 100 patients at the sanatorium

       It seems incredible that there are so many journalists who swallow Fidel's story and ignore the plight of the average Cuban. It is criminal that people who are always saying they studied Journalism to "make a diffrence" ignore the suffering just 90 miles away. CNN is afraid or forbidden to visit the hospitals in Cuba, They have sold their souls to have access in Cuba. They know if they report the truth Fidel would kick their cowardly asses out of Cuba,