Cuba's healthcare system deteriorates amid US sanctions and fuel shortages
Cuba's healthcare providers are warning of worsening medical shortages, rising death rates and prolonged blackouts as pressure from the United States deepens the island's crisis. The situation is being felt most sharply in Havana, where doctors say conditions at the William Soler Pediatric Hospital have deteriorated in recent months. The account points to a broader collapse in the country's health system, which remains formally free and universal but is under severe strain.At the hospital's surgical unit and anaesthesiology department, head Alioth Fernandez said the survival rate for newborns needing neonatal surgery has fallen sharply. He said that in the first... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 30 Jul 2026 18:00 LONDON
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