Havana Cuba. – From the prison of maximum rigor Kilo 5 ½located in the province of Pinar del Río, the prisoner Hiosbel Román Ramos denounces that a doctor from that facility has refused to provide him with medical care on five occasions.
Through a conversation with CubaNetRomán Ramos, who is a member of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), denounced Dr. Darennis Caridad Barrios Pedroso, consulting physician of Detachment 4. The inmate affirms that he has attended her consultation on five occasions and on each of them This woman has denied him health care on the pretext that there are no medicines.
In this sense, Román Ramos explained that for more than three years he has been suffering from a persistent and pronounced cough accompanied by expectoration, to which the professional has limited himself to pointing out that “he does not know what he has.” The activist emphasizes that the official accompanies her evasiveness with mistreatment and also usually repeats that “whoever does not like it, leave prison” and that “she is not interested, that they accuse her anywhere.”
The subhuman living conditions that characterize this and other Cuban prisons, marked by overcrowding, poor diet and poor food conditions, cold, humidity, leaks and leaks from sanitary facilities and sewers, lack of hygiene , the proliferation of vectors and stress, just to mention a few of them, have a decisive impact on the weakening of the immune system while at the same time favoring the proliferation of contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and other respiratory ailments or illnesses among the prison population. dermatological such as scabies or different types of fungi.
Hiosbel Román Ramos added that last Saturday, November 5, he was taken late at night to the medical post after having spent the whole day suffering from severe pain in the cervical area, but this doctor, instead of attending to the medical emergency, As is his professional obligation, he argued that “10 at night is not the time to inject.”
Before ending his telephone communication, the UNPACU activist also stressed that this official usually denies medical assistance to the prison population.
The information was also corroborated by another inmate, who, on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, denounced in a phone call from the prison that this doctor is “anti-prisoners”, since he has seen her mistreat inmates and emphasized that he himself has been mistreated by her on previous occasions, in which she has refused to examine him on the same pretext that there are no medicines.
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