‘What Did These Cuban Children Do to Trump?’: US #Embargo Blamed as Infant Mortality Soars
“Is there anything worse than a child dying of cancer when it was preventable?” asked one observer.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-infant-mortality

from #CommonDrreams
Brett Wilkins
Feb 12, 2026

The crisis is particularly dire among children with cancer. #Cuba’s free healthcare system—which prioritizes the health of the people instead of industry profits, as in the #US—once boasted a #pediatric cancer survival rate of 80%, on par with the world’s wealthy nations. Now that’s down to around 65% as the blockade has forced healthcare providers to modify treatment protocols and medications.

“The situation is very serious at the moment. It was already in terms of acquiring supplies and medicines. But now it is intensifying and complicated with other aspects,” Dr. Forteza Saéz, an oncologist at Havana’s University of Medical Sciences, told La Jornada...

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