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“Free public hospitals are extremely rare and even in those, posters appear: ‘Why do you complain about your treatment if you are not contributing to the maintenance of the hospital?’ Generally speaking, medical attention in the north is free, but hospital accommodation has to be paid for, and prices range from petty sums to virtual monuments to legalized theft” -Ernesto Che Guevara 1951