Cuba: Blockade Places Restrictions on Cancer Treatment

Cuban leaders say the 50-year-long blockade has had a severe impact on the island’s health system. Restrictions prevent the direct purchase of drugs used in chemotherapy, making it necessary o bring them through third countries. This increases the prices and delays treatment in hospitals. About 300 children are treated each year at six different hospitals in Cuba. Official figures say that survival rates could be increased from 20% to 70% with the availability of the drugs. teleSUR