"Patients at the Ramón Pando Ferrer eye hospital in Havana." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited below.
(p. A4) Cuban doctors abroad receive much better pay than in Cuba, along with other benefits from the state, like the right to buy a car and get a relatively luxurious house when they return. As a result, many of the finest physicians have taken posts abroad.
The doctors and nurses left in Cuba are stretched thin and overworked, resulting in a decline in the quality of care for Cubans, some doctors and patients said.
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