Cuba: Castro's health care paradise

HAVANA, April 20 (Ariel Delgado Covarrubias / www.cubanet.org) - For the last two months, two vitamin supplements that used to be widely available in pharmacies have become hard to find.

The two, government-produced and marketed Multivit and Polivit, consisting of vitamins A, B complex, and folic acid, were introduced to combat a virtual epidemic of a neuropathy attributed to poor diet during the hard times in the last decade.

"For the last two months, shipments have been very irregular. They arrive in small quantities and we run out the same day," said the clerk at one pharmacy. The story at other pharmacies proved to be the same.