Cuban lives cut short as health system flatlines

HAVANA — Rosa Valentina Perez has been lying in a bed in Cuba’s main cancer clinic for nearly three weeks, waiting for a CT scan to diagnose loss of mobility in her legs. Perez underwent surgery for breast cancer two years ago. She urgently needs a scan to know whether the cancer has spread to her spine, but the only working CT scanner in Havana is at the city’s neurology hospital — and the waitlist there is long. “You can’t imagine what it’s like to have this pain, to know that your life span is being diminished, and to hear […]... Keep on reading: Cuban lives cut short as health system flatlines