Relatives of patients interned at a psychiatric hospital in Placetas, Cuba, describe the dire situation at the institution as a “concentration camp.” Dozens of patients have been abandoned, left without basic necessities such as beds, chairs, or toilets. And to make matters worse, they have no running water.
What is happening in the psychiatric hospital of Placetas (Villa Clara) is a horror story. This is described by two relatives of people with mental illnesses who are kept confined in that hospital, which was supposed to be dismantled and moved to Corralillo, about 120 kilometers away. However, several families opposed this because, due to the transportation difficulties the country is experiencing, it became very hard for them to visit their relatives. The problem is that the move is half-finished, and nothing that was taken has been returned or restored, which has made the situation of the hospital even more precarious.
“The sick were not taken to Corralillo, but the beds were taken to Corralillo. They took the toilets, the chairs where they rested, the televisions, the water installation, the pipes… They stole the water pump and the police arrived, and the pump did reappear, but the water installations never returned and no one knows where they went,” explains a relative.
“It is a concentration camp,” notes another Cuban who prefers to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals against her relative, who is detained in the center, where in the last week several days have passed without water, even to drink. Those who have gone to visit their relatives attest to this and have found them dirty, with remnants of feces and urine on their bodies and clothes; without pajamas because the seamstress had not come to make ties to secure them.
“It’s in a hellish place, with pastures around, and there’s no place to ask for a glass of water. There’s nothing there. There are no washing machines, and since there’s no water or staff to wash, just imagine,” he adds.
This horrible situation in Cuba is repeated all over the island, yet leftists in the U.S. and all over the free world continue to laud the communist dictatorship’s healthcare system.
These patients are useless to the “revolution” and thus irrelevant. They do NOT matter. Move along.