Cuban Fermin Patterson Quintana, a patient with chronic kidney failure, reported the abandonment of the authorities in Santiago de Cuba and the multiple difficulties that must be solved to be treated at the Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Surgical Hospital.
The journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada published the story on his Facebook page and revealed the sad situation: “If it is unfortunate to see a healthy person suffer, it is unfair to see sick people suffer these deficiencies,” he wrote.
Patterson, meanwhile, revealed in a video that he had to get up very early and go out on his own at dawn, even in the rain, to get to therapy.
“Right now I am undergoing treatment and I arrived soaked, because I came here on a motorcycle a few days ago and I have spent 800 pesos just on the motorcycle, because it is the only way I can get around, because I could get hurt on the bus,” he said about his ordeal.
Tired of so many inconveniences, he said that “it is a lack of respect and insensitivity on the part of everyone, nobody cares about us, maybe because we have a terminal illness, that is why we can die at any moment, that is why nobody cares about us.”
For this very reason, the journalist Mayeta made a call for “reflection, attention and an invocation to sanity. I will not talk about politics, although in Cuba everything is politics. This is too much and it has to stop, now!!”
In December 2023, it circulated on social networks The desperate plea of a Cuban mother who begged for help with a catheter for his son, who suffers from kidney failure and undergoes hemodialysis.
Two months earlier, another mother asked for help for her 15-year-old daughteralso with chronic kidney failure and waiting years for a kidney transplant.
Mirnellis Saldívar reported on her Facebook wall that the minor became ill when she was seven years old and has been ready to have a transplant since 2019.
While in August of the same year, one more mother He begged for help to obtain a humanitarian visa for his son with end-stage chronic renal failure.
Cuban Maylin Rueda Sevila, through the social networks of dancer and choreographer Noly Blak, launched a desperate request to raise funds so that her nine-year-old son could obtain a humanitarian visa and undergo surgery in the United States.
