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Low on beds and doctors are grappling with shortages of medicine, oxygen and other critical supplies. some doctors are taking an unprecedented step using social media to criticize the cuban government s handling of the pandemic. cnn s patrick altman reports from havana. reporter: during the first months of the pandemic, cuban health care workers received applause every night. cuba s government calls the doctors and nurses heroes in white coats and sends them to work in countries around the world to earn the hard currency the communist-run island desperately needs. but as cuba s socialist health care system faces shortages of medicine and hospitals are overwhelmed by covid. tensions have emerged between the government and the doctors and nurses they usually praise. during a visit to a province hard-hit by covid in august, cuba s prime minister said health care worker there is had committed errors and you were ....
Nurses they usually praise. during a visit to a province hard hit by covid in august, cuba s prime minister said health care workers there had committed errors and were undisciplined. there are complaints about lack of medicine, he said, but they are less than the complaints of mistreatment, neglect, or the doctors don t make visits. that s incredible. the backlash across the island from some cuban health care workers was swift and unprecedented. it s the heat. reporter: we are demanding the minimum conditions to offer decent care to our patients and health care workers, this doctor said. more than three dozen doctors and nurses have posted videos to social media saying the government s pandemic response is failing. we want to keep working, we want to keep saving lives, we are not responsible for the sanitary collapse in our country. the cuban government says the ....