Scores of Cuban medical personnel work in Haiti.
Cuba’s once-vaunted public health system has slipped significantly since the end of Moscow’s massive subsidies in the early 1990s.
"...residents were boiling their water but could not wash their hands as often as they wished because the city of about 130,000 people has an acute soap shortage.
Calls from El Nuevo Herald to the Celia Sánchez Manduley Hospital in Manzanillo, the biggest health institution in the region, were answered by women who said they were not authorized to comment. Martínez told El Nuevo Herald that he had gathered his information from residents and health workers in the region.
Some of them called him from public phones because police and state security agents are trying to block reports on the cholera outbreak..."
The truth is that Cuba’s “once vaunted health system” was a total lie and fabrication. Nothing has slipped since subsidies stopped coming from Moscow, simply some of the truth made it into the real world and the pro Castro media took to blaming it on Moscow’s cutting off money.