Mexico City, Mexico.- 83-year-old Juan Alberto Ramos Rojas has been unable to see for 36 months. To correct his condition, he needs to have surgery, and to have surgery, he needs glasses to follow the treatment. the family of old man couldn’t get them. That’s why they offer rice (they have it because they harvest it) in exchange for some glasses.
The man resides in a town called Capitán, municipality of Vertientes, in Camagüey. His family without any other solution has gone to social networks to ask for help.
“Whoever can help with the glasses will be given two sacks of Creole rice,” he wrote. Daineris Birgen on her Facebook wall.
Juan Alberto has worked all his life in the fields, and although the force is still with him, he has paused his life due to blindness. His greatest desire is to be able to see his granddaughter in his uniform, but the fact that there are no glasses for him in an entire province has condemned him to darkness.
Birgen clarifies that the glasses they need are #20.
While we see how they build one hotel after another and export the medicines that are produced in the country, the lack of basic medical supplies continues to be reported throughout the country. Deaths have even been reported in hospitals lack of resources.
At the end of February María de los Ángeles Pérez González denounced that her elderly mother arrived with her mother old woman to the emergency room of the Provincial Hospital of Cienfuegos with severe acute pyelonephritis (urinary infection defined as the presence of germs in the urine). His condition was serious and he was on the verge of kidney failure. She also suffered a lot of pain and was dehydrated from vomiting.
Even so, when the doctor saw her, she assured María that the old woman had no admission criteria, that they were going to hydrate her a little, inject her with diclofenac and she could return home to die.
The specialist confessed that the situation with the intravenous antibiotic, which was what she needed, “was very difficult.”
María de los Ángeles refused to take her mother because she knew it was condemning her to death without even a fight. Thanks to her complaints, they finally admitted her with an indication to apply a medicine called cefotaxime, but they never did.
A group of doctors met to decide who to apply the intravenous medicine to. There is not one for everyone, so doctors have no choice but to select among their patients who they will let live and who will not have the same opportunity. The old woman was not chosen and passed away.
In January, in Artemis, A 15-year-old girl died who was admitted with dengue hemorrhagic fever. She needed vitamin K, injectable Omeprazole and Phenytoin in vials, medications that she did not have at the hospital.
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