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The debate over the true efficacy of Cuba's health care system continues.
First, last week PBS reporter Ray Suarez delivered a mostly positive and disappointing look at its system that was disputed by the Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady... and here on this blog.
Now, a January 2008 dispatch made public this month by WikiLeaks offers another insider's assessment.
It is titled ``Cuban healthcare: Aquí Nada es Facil'' -- Nothing here is easy -- written by a nurse, officially a Foreign Service Health Practitioner, who had lived there for over 2 years. It consists of anecdotes gathered from ``manicurists, masseuses, hair stylists, chauffeurs, musicians, artists, yoga teachers, tailors, as well as HIV/AIDS and cancer patients, physicians, and foreign medical students.''
LATEST UPDATE:
Ray Suarez, the PBS Newshour reporter responds to some of O'Grady's charges:
"The examples of Ms. O'Grady's myopic outrage are many. One man we interviewed for the series particularly ticked off the Cuban government. Oscar Espinosa Chepe is one of "The 75," a group of political prisoners hassled and mistreated for years by the Castro government, before the majority was pressured to leave the country."
FOR MORE, SEE:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/ray-suarez-responds-to-criticism-of-cuba-series.html
FOR THIS BLOG'S CRITICAL POST ON SUAREZ, SEE:
http://thehypervigilantobserver.blogspot.com/2010/12/cuba-wsjs-ogrady-blasts-pbss-ray.html
