A young father of a four-year-old child died in Santiago de Cuba victim of alleged medical negligence in the Ambrosio Grillo hospital.
“Something appeared on his nose that caused cellulite. It seems that she walked on him and picked up a bacteria. They took him to the doctor because he was in a lot of pain and you know what medical care is like in Cuba, they didn’t give him the medication he was on. They were controlling him with pills and it was not what he was carrying,” a family member told journalist Yosmany Mayeta in an audio recording.
“They said there were no medications and then when he got worse they said that the medication was there, and in reality what happened is that due to the doctors’ negligence, that is why he died, because they were giving him the wrong medication,” the source added.
The victim, 34 years old and identified as Yasser Sánchez, lived in the neighborhood of Los Pinoswhere his neighbors have been shocked by his death.
Yosmany Mayeta called on the Santiago authorities to enter the Ambrosio Grillo hospital and find out what is happening there because it is not the first case that has been reported in recent weeks under suspicion of medical negligence.
“The Ambrosio Grillo hospital in Santiago de Cuba has reported the death of young people for several weeks. and relatives have reported that it is allegedly ‘medical negligence,'” the communicator noted.
“It cannot be that they hide medications, medical supplies and any medical aid utensils and let young people from Santiago die from curable pathologies”he added.
The journalist urged the authorities to urgently enter that hospital and stop once and for all “the massacre they are committing.”
Mayeta Labrada added that this should be a unanimous call replicated by all those who died due to alleged medical negligence in that hospital.
At the end of May, a young Cuban, barely 19 years old, died after peritonitis was diagnosed as dengue, according to what his family reported in statements to journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
The deceased young man, named Vladimir Hechabarría, was laid to rest in his home, where he was said goodbye to dozens of people who accompanied his coffin to the cemetery.
In recent years, reports of medical negligence have skyrocketed in Cuba – many of them with tragic outcomes – in a context of marked shortage of supplies and a permanent flight of health professionals, both abroad and towards other more labor branches. profitable within the country.
