This is a reality involving many doctors in Cuba. Care is the guard without certainly devoted more time-consuming activity and there are unpaid medical practice in Cuba. The 70's in the Congress of the CTC he discussed the matter and accepted by the rest MINSAP guard post two years after doctors "give up" in service assemblies. Also in the late 70's was considered to pay the guards and streamline emergency services specialties guards going to contact them, this was not successful. Here is the note of a person signing Liliana on this topic:
Doctors on duty in Cuba, something interesting.
By: Liliana.
Life is very dangerous. Not by the people who do evil, but because they feel and see what happens. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
From what I'm going to tell any doctor can attest to Cuba, it is not an iota of exaggeration.
Cuba medical Guards are not paid. Not seen a penny for this profession.
Photo: Cows graze around the ruins of what was the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "Hospital Julio Trigo López", there I did my last medical guard in Cuba. Editor's Note .
In a month you can make five or six guards, it depends. A weekly, plus one that corresponds to a Saturday or Sunday. Moreover, it is referred to the break after the call. You continue to work the next day to complete eight hours. No more, no less. There are hospitals and polyclinics that internal adjustment of the direction of the center will allow the physician to leave one or two hours before the official starting time, but few of these sites. Typically, you have to play the whole day.
Some doctors, including telling me I, we used the ruse of leave and leave the card to a trusted partner that it was he who made us, please mark the exit. He was a colleague ran the risk and benefit, but we did.
Another problem we face with health professionals is the lack of equipment, poor infrastructure was a dent on good service, we are supposed to provide the population.
When starting guard assigned us a number of films. Almost always there were five or six, not more, were also counted the vials of each medication: salbutamol, aminophylline, two rolls of tape, five or six packets with sutures, three knives, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide (hydrogen peroxide) and a pint of red aseptil, etc. Oh, and one liter of alcohol than ninety degrees stained with thimerosal to not take it.
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magazine at the beginning and the beginning of each call. If you needed something that was not well justified its use could get you a problem. The "Holy Inquisition" was awaiting the decision to fall on minimum and gut. Poor you if you were virtually considered a dangerous element to the nation: indifferent, apathetic, that you had requested to leave the country or that someone, an informer, he had heard, for chance, that you liked American movies or had a relative working abroad in a stone quarry and was doing better than you, being a doctor in socialist Cuba, the land of Fidel. Never better.
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