Cuba's medical professionals are grappling with severe shortages of medicine and supplies, compounded by widespread power outages, as U.S. sanctions intensify, CBS News reports.
Healthcare workers in Havana are reporting increasing challenges in providing care due to a lack of essential medications and equipment, while frequent blackouts disrupt hospital operations, per Havana Times.
The ongoing economic hardships have sparked international attention, with Costa Rica becoming the first country to vote against the U.S. embargo at the UN, as noted by TiCOTimes.
E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E6, organisms; the pressure it names: healthcare crisis. Its words also reach E12 states and E10 institutions.
Here it is a dynamic between organisms, states and institutions: medical professionals and healthcare workers (E6 organisms), with U.S. sanctions and U.S. embargo (E12 states), and economic hardships and power outages (E10 institutions).
The floor of bodies and health. In this briefing: medical professionals, healthcare workers.
The floor of states and force. In this briefing: U.S. sanctions, U.S. embargo.
The floor of money and rules. In this briefing: economic hardships, power outages.