The Caribbean island of Cuba has recently been experiencing a strange outbreak of dengue. This may have resulted in hundreds of deaths throughout the island, something the Castro regime has done little to acknowledge the outbreak. Doctors at hospitals have also been dying from this disease leaving fewer individuals to properly treat patients. José Antonio Fornaris of writes that
In the end, no one can say for certain; the government-controlled media have not acknowledged the spread of the disease while many claim to know of at least one case of the mosquito-borne illness.
Last Monday, Carlos Campos, a 61-year-old physician who was director of the Luis de la Puente Uceda hospital died; some say of heart disease, others claim dengue was the cause of death.
Campos was the chief of the team of doctors performing medical tests on Cubans migrating to the United States.
This is a perfect example of the type of cover-ups associated with these tyrannical communist governments. Castro has refused to comment on the outbreak and has given little aid to the island in order to facilitate the treatment of patients. While the communist elite are in their mansions consuming thousands of dollars in luxury goods a day, the citizenry can not even fight the spread of a preventable disease. Communism is not equal wealth distribution, it is wealth confiscation.
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man. and i’m going for a few weeks. lol. i’ll ask fidel why he’s covering this up.
Dengue Fever is also known as “Bone Crushing Disease”, meaning you feel like your bones are being crushed, continuously.
A colleague of mine, while we were both working in Trinidad and Tobago contracted the disease, and spent several days in hopsital on IV fluids.
Generally you don’t die from the disease, but as my colleague said “you want to”.
Curious that an island where people would seem to have become acclinmatized to such a disease would have such a deadly outbreak…
Well I am shocked that the socialized health care systems in Cuba are not curing their folks. Socialized medicine provides care for all and that is what is important. Actually Curing people is secondary.
I really think that if the poor Cubans felt better about themselves then their socialized health care system would function better and they would all be cured.
Of course cures take drugs from evil drug companies and equipment from evil equipment companies some of whom hold near monopolies. So someone else has to provide that stuff.
Well here you go socialists. You got your little utopia made by Castro, try living in it before you want the same goodness here.
Some say dengue fever has claimed 700 lives
“some say” says Cubanet…of course it must be a fact.
This is a perfect example of the type of cover-ups associated with these tyrannical communist governments.
oh my yes, in stark contrast to these democratic capitalist ones.
oh my yes, in stark contrast to these democratic capitalist ones.
Yes, indeed. In VERY stark contrast, bstender. Because here, at least, I can learn the news through blogs and many of the Free Presses on the Internet. Can you say Cubans enjoy the same?
I don’t know if it “is a perfect example of the type of cover-ups associated with these tyrannical communist governments.”
It sounds very similiar to the US government response to Katrina.
Could government in general be the problem?
Correct. Government in general is the problem here, but communist government is a lot worse in contrast to our governments.
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