There is not sweeter indictment of the Cuban health care system than the fact that the Cubans had to call in a Spanish doctor to treat the decaying dictator.
But a close second might be the fate of the maternity ward at the Julio Trigo Hospital in Arroyo Naranjo, near Havana, which is shown in a recent photograph.
In May 1989, Castro said:
"Well, I think we have a magnificent hospital facility. It was finished a few weeks ago and has already started to render services, except the inauguration was delayed a little. That's fine though because we are still on time. I was saying that it is a magnificent hospital facility. I asked the public health investor: How does it compare with other maternity hospitals? He said to me: Undoubtedly, this is the best one in Cuba. This is logical because I think that every new thing we make should be better.... As with every one of these hospitals, there will be something that will be amended, there will be things that are perfected. Even though they are similar projects, there is no doubt that each one will be better than the other. Here, however, we have the best maternity-infant hospital in the country."
Almost 18 years later, the place has gone to the cows.
The Real Cuba, which gets the H/T, has more photos.
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