Physiotherapist Elba Rosa López Napoles, infected with dengue, died in the province of Santiago de Cuba after they could not transfer her to a care center due to lack of ambulances, her sister denounced.
The Provincial Directorate of Health of Santiago de Cuba offered condolences for his death and recognition of his work in a facebook post shared this Tuesday, accompanied by several photographs of the professional along with her colleagues from the Carlos Juan Finlay polyclinic, in the Songo La Maya municipality.
In a comment to post, her sister Mercedes López Nápoles denounced that they asked for an ambulance to take her to a hospital in the province, but they told her that she was not reported in serious condition due to dengue and they did not have vehicles available.
“After her death, that word is invalid, since no action was taken to transfer her to the provincial hospital. From my municipality, I called the SIUM (Integrated System of Medical Emergencies) and the coordinator replied that there was only one bus in trouble. technical condition and that he had to go to Los Reynaldos to look for a child who was suffering from dengue,” he wrote in the publication.
This is the second member of the López Nápoles family to die in less than a month due to not receiving medical assistance. According to Mercedes López, the same thing happened with his brother on August 19, although she did not specify whether he was a victim of dengue. “Now there are no words left, they were left to die,” she wrote.
“After death, that word is invalid, since no action was taken to transfer her to the provincial hospital”
For its part, the Provincial Health Directorate remembered Elba Rosa López as a professional dedicated to her tasks and a loving mother of a child. “If I kept talking about you it would never end, it only remains to say that the Carlos Juan Finlay La Maya polyclinic lost a warrior.”
Dengue, a highly contagious disease, once again puts the Cuban health system to the test with hundreds of infections, of which the Government continues without confirming exact figures.
on the tv show Round table This Thursday, the Vice Minister of Public Health, Carilda Peña García, chose to refer to the figures for Latin America provided by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which reveal that between the first week and the 32nd of 2022 there was an increase in up to 300% in infections.
In its balance of last year, the Ministry of Public Health reported that dengue circulated in nine Cuban provinces but that, as of September, infections were reduced by 29.3% compared to 2020.
While hundreds of Cubans prefer to spend the disease at home, “exported” infections have also skyrocketed: of the 100 dengue cases reported this summer in Spain, two-thirds had traveled to Cuba; Of the 123 positives from France, 44 came from the Island, and in Florida there were 193 cases of the total of 216 with the same origin.
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