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Who Gets Cuban Treatment Retinitis Pigmentosa?
So who gets treatment retinitis pigmentosa in Cuba? Depending on whom you ask; either the gullible or the very wealthy. People who are fortunate enough to be healthy and not in need of looking for an unconventional treatment for a debilitating medical condition like retinitis pigmentosa, which supposedly has no treatment, assume that only the wealthy can visit other countries in search of a cure they cannot obtain at home.
Actually the opposite is true. It’s the uninsured and the underinsured who can benefit from traveling to Cuba for treatment retinitis pigmentosa. It’s surprisingly affordable to stay at a clinic for weeks on end, will all meals provided for you and a companion of your choice from home.
It’s the medical professionals in North America, the UK, or western Europe who say only the gullible head to Cuba for treatment retinitis pigmentosa. People only go because they hear reports that others were greatly helped by the Cuban treatment. No one would go otherwise. It’s scary to go to foreign country, even with a friend or relative, to let someone do microsurgery on your eyes. Had people lost their vision by submitting themselves to poor medical care, no one would go to Cuba and they wouldn’t have a booming medical tourism business.
So who is really getting ? People who want to take charge of their healthcare decisions. These people become better healthcare consumers, shopping for the best, most effective treatment that they can afford.. It’s the informed person with retinitis pigmentosa that is going to Cuba and deciding to undergo their treatment.
If your government does not permit travel to Cuba, yet you want to go, you will have a tough decision to make. Is your eyesight worth several flights to get around a Cuban travel ban? If something goes wrong you will have little recourse as you were not supposed to be there in the first place.