US sanctions mean life, death for ill kids
By Agence France-Presse in Havana, Cuba | China Daily | Updated: 2015-10-29 08:12
The US embargo on Cuba, which the UN General Assembly formally condemned on Tuesday, is not about international politics for Elizabeth Navarro. It's what keeps her 7-year-old daughter from getting the cancer drug she needs.
Navarro's daughter Noemi Bernardez, had a brain tumor removed in September. Now, her doctors say she needs a US-made chemotherapy drug - temozolomide.
That sounds easy enough. But, sadly, it isn't, family members and doctors say.
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