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Wednesday, 17 January 2007
 

Report: Castro’s life endangered
by … shoddy Cuban health care
Allahpundit

The irony, so sweet. So syrupy sweet.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro has long prided himself on Cuba’s doctors and free public health care system, but that system seems to have let him down after he fell ill in July , U.S.-based doctors said on Tuesday.

Based on a report in Tuesday’s edition of Spain’s El Pais newspaper, the doctors — who have no first-hand knowledge of Castro’s condition — said Castro had received questionable or even botched care at the hands of health experts on his communist-ruled island …

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Lorie Byrd has more here.

Contributed by Bill Faith on January 17, 2007 at 12:30 AM in Cuba | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


Sunday, 24 December 2006
 

Report: Spanish surgeon rushed to Castro’s bedside
Allahpundit

These Castro false alarms are getting to be as annoying as the diverted-flight scares this summer. But whatever. On a slow-newsy Christmas Eve? 24-karat gold.

Feliz Navidad!

A renowned Spanish surgeon has been rushed to Cuba to treat ailing leader Fidel Castro, a Spanish newspaper reported on Sunday.

Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido, an intestinal specialist, traveled to the Caribbean island on Thursday aboard an aircraft chartered by the Cuban government, according to Spain’s left-leaning El Periodico de Catalunya newspaper.

The plane carried medical equipment not available in Cuba in case the leader needs further surgery due to his progressively failing health, the newspaper reported. ...

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 24, 2006 at 03:42 PM in Cuba | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack