MIAMI, United States. – The activist Yamilka Lafitaknown on social media as Lara Crofs, reported on Tuesday about the improvement of the Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz and stated that her parents, Milagros Ortiz and Enmanuel Lemus, “now live with the peace and happiness of seeing (…) their daughter grow as healthy as possible.”
Lafita explained that Amanda “still has to go to the hospital regularly for check-ups, but she has already started to live.”
“Mila [la madre de Amanda] She tells me that she is very hyperactive and that she is always laughing, she is happy. She now sits up on her own, she eats very well and, if everything continues as it is going, next year she might even be able to walk,” said the activist, who has been key in the campaign carried out to achieve the recovery of the little girl.
According to Lafita, “Amanda was the girl who gave hope back to many Cubans inside and outside of Cuba. The solidarity and support that this family received was exciting and wonderful. The life of this little girl was the cry of a Cuban civil society, in a single united voice, regardless of ideologies, creeds and race,” said the activist.
She also thanked “all the people involved” and “the independent press that did not take their eyes off the case for a second.” She also extended her thanks to friends, acquaintances and “all the mothers who welcomed the baby as if she were their own, to the solidarity groups Aliento de Vida and to the Cristo Cambia Vida Ministry.” White Limayto those donors who prefer to remain anonymous, but who from the very beginning offered to bring supplies and everything that would be necessary to operate on the baby, [y] to the Spanish doctors who operated on her with so much love and care.”
In March of this year, Amanda received a liver transplant in Spain, after lengthy efforts by her mother to ensure that the little girl received medical attention.
Diagnosed with biliary atresia, the girl had been waiting for a liver transplant in Cuba for more than a year. Her life has been marked by long hospital stays and complications due to resistant bacteria she contracted while on the island.
Although the operation in March was a success, bleeding complications and the formation of a hematoma in the abdominal region forced the girl to undergo further surgeries after the transplant.
In early April, Amanda underwent her fourth operation in Spain, where he arrived in February thanks to a humanitarian visa obtained after an intense media and fundraising campaign.
Until her departure from Cuba, Amanda’s mother denounced the inaction of the Cuban authorities, describing her situation as a “crime” that put her baby’s life at risk.
