Ana Laura Blanco Medina, a third-year Cuban student at the Faculty of Languages at the University of Matanzas, died Thursday of hemorrhagic dengue. She like that she confirmed it in Facebook the Federation of University Students of that province.
The levels of dengue transmission in Matanzas and in other provinces of the country have reached alarming proportions. The Ministry of Public Health admitted in a recent report that the situation is “complex” and would get even more complicated throughout the month of August, due to “holidays, rains, intense heat,” in addition to “serious problems” with the urban cleaning.
However, Health officials are reluctant to reveal the number of deaths caused by dengue this year. The panorama of several municipalities of Matanzas is especially critical, according to the local station Radio 26. Bertha María Bello Rodríguez, deputy director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, told the media that Matanzas, Unión de Reyes and Calimete are the municipalities with the highest viral incidence.
The levels of dengue transmission in Matanzas and in other provinces of the country have reached alarming proportions
Other reportpublished in Cubadebate, registered high values in Isla de la Juventud, Havana, Camagüey, Holguín, Las Tunas, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo. According to the figures handled this week by the Government Working Group, the situation is critical in 13 provinces and there is only a favorable evolution in Artemisa and Mayabeque.
During the meeting, Miguel Díaz-Canel demanded more popular participation in the fight against the disease. It is necessary, according to the president’s usual rhetoric, “to explain to the people, carry out exchanges at the neighborhood level and call for people to actively participate in the fight against Aedes aegypti within their homes and also in the community.
In the publication of Cubadebate, a reader demanded more information about the numbers that the Government hides. “In these moments, dengue is more dangerous and lethal, the better the statistics of this disease,” he affirmed.
There is much disagreement regarding transparency in the management of the Ministry of Public Health. Falsified or unrevealed statistics and triumphalist speeches contrast with the lack of medicines, unreported deaths and the precariousness of health services.
“At the moment dengue is more dangerous and lethal, better give the statistics of that disease”
Medical negligence in Cuban hospitals is another of the aspects pointed out by human rights activists on the island. Oppositionist Betty Guerra Perdomo denounced this Wednesday on Twitter the death in Havana of the pregnant Elizabeth Espinosa, who died from a transfusion that was not compatible with her blood group.
The young woman lived in the Sierra Maestra district, in the municipality of Boyeros. She was “near term” of her pregnancy and she was the mother of a 10-year-old boy. She was admitted to the Enrique Cabrera Cossío General Teaching Hospital “because she had anemia.” There she was given a transfusion that did not match her group and immediately started a “transfusion reaction.”
According to the complaint, the girl she was expecting died in her mother’s womb and, when trying to perform a cesarean section, Espinosa also died. “A country that sends doctors to the whole world, but is not capable of maintaining hospitals in minimum conditions to provide proper care to the population is a total fraud,” Guerra Perdomo is outraged in his publication.
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