The Doctor of Sciences Luis Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez, drug - epidemiologist of the aforementioned center, commented that this is fundamentally the deficit of raw materials that are owned by branches or companies that do not sell drugs to Cuba for fear of sanctions that, extraterritorially, imposes the blockade.

We speak of drugs for the treatment of cancer, largely North American, or the technology of liquid biopsy, a very novel technique that can not be introduced in Cuba due to this genocidal policy, increased during the current administration of that country, stressed Rodríguez Sánchez .

Also, medicines for heart diseases such as blockers, retrovirals for the treatment of HIV, which could extend and improve the quality of life of the patients; the last generation antibiotics for serious patients, that due to its high cost, the country makes important disbursement to acquire them in third countries, said Rodríguez Sánchez.