Florida, April 6 – For years, Cuban pharmacy networks guaranteed the population’s access to basic or necessary medications to alleviate any health problem.
The secure sale of antibiotics, analgesics, syrups, ointments, first-aid products, and others, at affordable prices mostly subsidized by the state budget, may seem like science fiction today.
The impact of the U.S. embargo currently prevents the importation of medicines and raw materials into Cuba, diminishes the potential of the national pharmaceutical industry, and causes serious shortages in the supply of these items—a reality that demands alternatives, while our people’s wallets are being drained by informal pharmacies.
Journalist Pedro Pablo Sáez Herrera dedicates the following commentary to this sensitive issue.
