From our Bureau of Free Utopian Socialist Health Care with some assistance from our Bureau of Leftist Latrine American Medical Powerhouses
As mosquito-borne virus plague Castrogonia, and as thousands of enslaved medical personnel are sent on foreign missions, ordinary Cubans are faced with the harsh reality that the so-called “free” medical care available to them is truly horrific. The truth is that Castro, Inc.’s doctors are poorly trained and few in number. Hospitals are poorly equipped, short on medicines, and usually filthy.
In addition, compassion is in short supply. In the case of this young mother, whose newborn baby had just died, the hospital staff said to her: “Force yourself to believe that he didn’t exist, that he had never existed.” Basically, take the same perspective on life as Castro, Inc. : no one’s life really matters at all (except for the lives of oligarchs).
Loosely translated from CiberCuba
A young Cuban mother residing in Holguín reported that her 20-day-old son died due to medical negligence at a hospital in that province.
Arlety González, from the Reparto Negrito in the municipality of Antilla, told the independent media outlet CubaNet that everything started on January 24th, when her baby fell ill. After a fatal outcome, she was told to “make yourself believe that he didn’t exist, that he had never existed.”
She explained that at 6:00 am that day, she took her son to the hospital. Upon arrival, a nurse took him away, and she heard nothing about him for 12 hours until an ambulance arrived.
“I only saw doctors going in and out, and none of them said anything to me,” she recounted.
González narrated that during the transfer, the baby had an adverse reaction to the antibiotic Rosephin, which caused cardiac arrest and convulsions.
“The nurse in the ambulance didn’t want me to go with her because she said I couldn’t go. But well, I fought with her and got into the ambulance,” she recalled.
When they arrived at the provincial hospital, she was asked to sit and wait without any information about her son’s condition. The report does not clarify the baby’s underlying illness.
Finally, she was told that if she wanted to see him alive, she needed to go to the ward.
“He was like that for three days. The Rosephin caused an adverse reaction and he caught a bacteria,” they explained to González.
On January 26th, after suffering multiple cardiac arrests, the baby died, according to the report.
Afterwards, the family endured agonizing and humiliating hours. The mother recounted that her son died at 3:20 am, and by noon he was still in the ward because there was no orderly available to take him to the morgue.
In her grief, González carried her baby herself to the morgue. However, she faced further obstacles when trying to bring her son home for a wake.
“Because he was a baby and didn’t have an ID card, the doctor told me to make up my mind that he didn’t exist. That he had never existed,” she indignantly recounted.
Finally, authorities tried to prevent her from taking her son’s body home for the wake, even bringing in the red berets to take the body away, which she prevented.
“I stayed there and told them they had to give me my child because he was my baby. Because even though he was dead, he was my son. He was 20 days old,” she emphasized.
More and more Cubans are losing relatives and reporting irregularities or medical negligence that cost lives in Cuba.
According to Miguel Ángel Ruano, president of the Free Cuban Medical Association, the problem is that good doctors are on missions abroad, leaving newly graduated physicians on the island who struggle to diagnose due to their lack of experience.
Two weeks ago, a 3-year-old girl was hospitalized for vomiting and headaches and subsequently died.