From our Bureau of Latrine American Medical Powerhouses
Heart wrenching story. Baby gets sicker and sicker. Father takes his baby to the nearest hospital on a motorcycle. (Motorcycle!). Doctors in the emergency room determine that the baby can only be saved from death at a pediatric hospital with the proper equipment. An ambulance is called. Five hours later, still no ambulance. The baby dies in the emergency room.
Can’t even begin to imagine what the parents went through. Waiting, waiting, waiting, while their baby is dying of respiratory distress (a very painful and ugly way to die).
Didn’t anyone else at that hospital have a car? Couldn’t anyone look for some other way to transport the baby?
See photo above, taken at the Ciro Redondo hospital in Artemisa where the girl died. Read about that hospital HERE.
Welcome to Castrogonia. Welcome to socialist hell. And you had better praise that free healthcare and all the other great accomplishments of the Revolution. Such a medical powerhouse.
Loosely translated from CiberCuba:
A 10-month-old baby girl with respiratory distress died this Thursday in Alquízar, in the province of Artemisa, after waiting almost five hours for an ambulance.
As confirmed by Dr. Lucio Enriquez Nodarse, who contacted a colleague close to the case who preferred to remain anonymous, the infant arrived in the morning at the Ciro Redondo de Artemisa Teaching Hospital from Dagame, Alquízar, but there was no ambulance to transfer her to the pediatric hospital.
“10-month-old infant from Dagame, Alquízar; history of good health (healthy child), starts with a fever in the morning and difficulty breathing, so the family decides to take her on a motorcycle to the referral hospital in the area , Ciro Redondo de Artemisa; she is “attended” in an emergency, making it necessary to transfer to the Pediatric Hospital, but there was no ambulance, the child died in the emergency room 4 or 5 hours after waiting for the transfer,” he explained in a publication on Facebook.
Referring to the situation presented by the minor, both doctors agreed that it was “an infant in a dying state (respiratory distress), with rattling, paradoxical breathing, poor ventilatory mechanics, laryngeal stridor, obtundated (falls asleep), possibly due to lack of oxygen, with little strength to breathe due to exhaustion, without receiving at least oxygen (mask goggles)”.
Enriquez Nodarse added in the post that “more invasive actions such as proceeding with urgent intubation to save her life and subsequent transfer to intensive care” were necessary for the case.
You can blame the “blockade” or any cause except the real one. The real one is exempt from all blame, certainly to the usual suspects, and they largely control the narrative. The “revolution” is never guilty.