For instance , Alba Moreira is 94 years old and is struggling for life , but the government turned its back on denying her the ambulance service to the central hospital , despite having advanced rheumatism and countless diseases that keep her from walking . Her children and neighbors decided to take her on the first means of transportation they had on hand , since the hospital ' s response was that they had no fuel for the roadworthy ambulance and the other was broken . Thus , they left and traveled more than 2 km step by step to set an example of effort and help to the people in need . That was a neighborhood ’ s Operation Miracle . I cannot explain why the doctors at the hospital prescribe drugs that are not for sale in the pharmacies , while nurses or other people are selling them on the street at higher prices . Everybody knows where these drugs are coming from : the very pharmacies where the doctors send their patients for them . Neither it ’ s understandable that a patient has scheduled a visit to some specialist and the latter cannot attend the former because of a medical mission in Venezuela . Who will replace the doctors who went abroad ? No one knows . There is no replacement , since the Cuban revolution needs its doctors to serve abroad and they must be where the authorities say and not where they are needed . For a surgical operation or a simple visit , the patient should bring to the specialist a high-priced gift , or enjoy a high social status , or simply being in rapport with the specialist or doctor on call . Otherwise , as it ’ s happening to many , the patient must resign herself or himself to the fact that there is a waiting list , so long that some names are erased because the patient died from the very health condition required of medical attention . These incidents derive from the concept of revolution defined by Fidel Castro towards 2000 : to change what must be changed . Only that they are changing the respect for human lives and for human rights into corruption by the authorities . Even the fuel allocated to services that must be provided to the population , like ambulance transportation , is sold on the black market to line the pockets of greedy people . It doesn ’ t matter how much the rest of the people is affected . It is time to say enough , to change what must be changed : this system into another that respects the rights of a marginalized and betrayed people . It is time to put to work to continue the struggle for the well-being of all and to properly punish corruption .
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