Two Cuban doctors die victims of dengue

Madrid Spain.- Cuban doctors Yeliezer González and Liana Delgado died this week of dengue, as confirmed through family and colleagues social networks.

Yeliezer González worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist and Liana Delgado as an epidemiologist. Both resided in the province of Matanzas.

“Today the Matanzas Gynecobstetric Hospital is in mourning. We received the sad news of her death this afternoon as a result of dengue from Dr. Yeliezer González, a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology at our hospital. I extend to her family and friends the deepest condolences of the Board of Directors of the Hospital and all her workers, ”the doctor also wrote on her Facebook profile. jamie lopez.

For its part, Laura Isabel Pancorboa resident of the United States but a native of Matanzas, confirmed: “Today, unfortunately, we received the news of the death of these two dear doctors from Matanzas, contemporary with our children, a gynecologist and another epidemiologist: beloved and respected, with beautiful families.”

“This is how our country is, infected with dengue, without medicines, without technology and without doctors, because we know from known people that on Sunday there was only one doctor for the entire Pediatric Hospital in Matanzas, Cuba. Until when do we have to put up with that misrule remaining indifferent, lying, indolent? There people are condemned to die. There is nothing. The immune systems are weak, due to lack of food for years, and everything conspires for the worse”, denounced Laura Isabel Pancorbo

Social networks were filled with messages of condolences to relatives, denunciations of the regime and praise for the work of these doctors.

“What sad news, for us your friends. I will remember you as the specialist in your mixed puerperium ward, your ward manager. I feel a lot of pain from your departure, ”Graciel Montes wrote about Yeliezer González.

“How much pain, companions of my daughter. My condolences to her family and friends. My daughter is not comforted to learn of the sad loss of her study colleagues and friends. God protect our people,” said Dulce María León Roque.

So far, the Cuban government has not commented on these deaths.

Last week, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) recognized that dengue infections on the island amounted to 11,634.

At the beginning of July, the health authorities indicated that the country was going through a epidemiological scenario “complex”; as well as they specified that the record of reproduction points of the dengue mosquito of the last 15 years had been broken.

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