The collapse of many Cuban public services due to the economic crisis has caused shortages of medicines and hospital failures that have caused some 12,000 doctors to leave the public health system. Héctor González, 40, a journalist by profession, left his country on November 1 and says he remembers exactly the moment when his life changed.
"I left Cuba because I was going to die in the hospital. There is a crisis there that worsens every day and it is something never seen before," he says.