Once a source of national pride, Cuba's healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis

Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ BATABANO, Cuba (AP) — After two surgeries and several rounds of radiation therapy over the past four years to treat a tumor, Irisleydis Tristá has spent the past seven months unable to get a CT scan to determine whether the cancer has grown or spread. The CT scanner at Havana’s Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, the country’s leading hospital, is broken. Doctors have told her that, because of a lack of resources, they cannot opera…

Once a source of national pride, Cuba's healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis

Irisleydis Tristá, a cancer patient in Cuba, has been unable to get a crucial CT scan for seven months because the machine at Havana’s leading hospital is broken