Yes, absolutely.
In the past two years especially, there's been a severe and noticeable lack of medications. My own family is affected by that. Families have to buy their medicine in another country because there's nothing in the pharmacy. It's simply not there. Cuba's own biopharmaceutical industry can now produce only about 30% of the medicines they used to be able to that are guaranteed to the population, because they can't access the raw materials.
Medicine is very important, as is food aid. With the loss of tourism to Cuba this year, a lot of people are out of work, and there's a lack of foreign currency coming in. Private businesses are severely affected, so people don't have money to purchase food. It's very difficult.
