Cuban lives cut short as health system flatlines
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July 15, 2026
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — 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.
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