(The Real Cuba) — Do you know what this is?
No, it is not a terrorist attack. And no, it is not an explosion of an oil depot.
Believe it or not, it is a fire set up by Venezuela’s Servicio Autonómico de Elaboraciones Farmacéuticas (SEFAR) to incinerate 566,590 kilos (1,227,000 pounds) of Cuban pharmaceuticals and medical products, that became obsolete due to mismanagement in its handling by the Venezuelan government.
While Cuban patients cannot find the medicines that they need and the Cuban hospitals do not have the equipment required to treat their patients, the Venezuelan government has to incinerate millions of dollars in Cuban pharmaceutical and medical products, sold by Castro & Castro Inc., because the Chávez regime is so incompetent that it cannot deliver the products in time and it cannot store them in a safe place either.
Among the products damaged were 27,000 syringes that were moldy and unfit for human use, having been stored in an unspecified warehouse that had a leaking roof.
According to Venezuela’s Comptroller General, Clodosbaldo Russián, a significant percentage of these drugs had been stored “for an average of two years and were not distributed,” while others were left in the open when they should have been refrigerated.
The information was published by Venezuela’s newspaper El Universal, which was able to obtain a copy of a report that Russian gave to the National Assembly.