Mother of ailing infant describes ‘truly hellish’ experience in Cuban pediatric hospital

From our Bureau of Free Socialist Healthcare with some assistance from our Bureau of Medical Powerhouses

Cubans face a much worse catastrophe than hurricane Ian every single day of their lives. This mother’s story reveals the REAL situation encountered by Cubans who face a medical crisis. Castro, Inc.’s Ministry of Truth has managed to convince the vast majority of earthlings that it is a “medical powerhouse” and that its free healthcare is not only its greatest achievement, but also sufficient reason for praising its repression rather than condemning it. But its only real triumph has been to concoct lies that are eagerly believed by fools everywhere.

Read it and weep. Imagine yourself in this hellish hospital with a perilously dehydrated and feverish infant.

Abridged and loosely translated from CubaNet

“It is incredible that since 2010 not even the paint has changed. It even looks worse than 12 years ago.” That was the first impression that Mirian Gutiérrez had when she arrived at the emergency room of the South Children’s Hospital, known as La Colonia, in Santiago de Cuba. Her three-month-old baby had an acute case of diarrhea and fever, for which he was referred on the 19th from his health center in the Songo La Maya municipality, where he lives.

The baby was taken care of in a short time because she is still nursing and has a certain priority among the other children. But most of them did not have that luck, because that day there were no reagents to carry out blood counts, nor medicines to treat patients. According to Miriam, when parents complained, the doctor only repeated that she “couldn’t do anything else.”

The doctor explained to the woman that she should admit her infant immediately because she could easily become dehydrated. She then told her that they would put him in the Gastro room because she was small, quiet and she “had all the conditions created for the stay of little children like hers.”

There she was received by a doctor who told her that they should possibly stay for five days, since the baby would need to take a course of antibiotics since the diarrhea was of bacterial origin. It should be noted that the diagnosis was based only on the symptoms, since at no tests at all were performed at any time.

“The tiny room assigned to us was old and dirty, and only had a single window almost two meters from the floor, so not even a breeze entered. The rusty crib, with iron bars, was covered with worn and yellowed sheets; and the armchair, where she had to sleep all those five days, “seemed to be from another century” because of it was so old and shabby.

“Right next to my room was the bathroom, unfortunately. Not only did it gross me out because of its stench and filth, but because its floor was always wet due to a leak in the toilet. There was also nowhere to bathe the children. It was a real hell ”she commented indignantly.

Whole story HERE in Spanish, with more horrific details and photos