Word was going around that Fidel had passed the lock on the funds in what came to Health. This joke appeared at that time.
Fidel visited one of their hospitals in Cuba. He stopped by the first patient he saw there. He then asked: What do you have?
Patient: Haemorrhoid, Sir.
Fidel: Well, take a cotton bud, immerse in mercurochrome, and put it there, over the entire area.
He walked a little and then went to converse with the second patient. He asked the same thing: So, what do you have?
Patient: Haemorrhoid, Sir.
Patient: Can I ask you something, Sir?
Fidel: Of course.
Patient: That they please, for God's mercy, swap the cotton bud.
Fidel: Well, take a cotton bud, immerse in mercurochrome, and put it there, over the entire area.
He kept on walking and speaking always to the next patient for a while and everyone there had the same problem. He then always said the same thing: Well, take a cotton bud, immerse in mercurochrome, and put it there, over the entire area.
When he reached the last patient in that ward, the patient stopped him by the end of his sentence, so it was when he said "entire area".
Patient: Can I ask you something, Sir?
Fidel: Of course.
Patient: That they please, for God's mercy, swap the cotton bud.
