SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- People close to the activist and collaborator of CubaNet Pedro Quiala They asked for help to be able to obtain and send to Cuba the medicines and supplies that could save the life of the young man, who suffers from cystic fibrosis of the lungs and pancreas.
In conversation with CubaNetIvette explained they managed get hoses for the oxygen machine on which Quiala depends and some antibiotics, but they need aerosols to decongest the lungs because the young man currently has lung bacteria that worsens his health.
According to Ivette, the medicines and supplies will be sent directly to Quiala in Cuba, and she appealed to the solidarity of Cuban emigrants to collect other antibiotics such as Levofloxacin and aerosols.
To do this, you can contact Ivette at +1 (786) 298-3290, she indicated. “I have some things that I am going to send but he is very bad at the moment,” he highlighted.
Cystic fibrosis was detected in Quiala when he was just 11 years old. Since then, he has had to live with the disease that causes difficult episodes. “By not having proper medical treatment and proper nutrition, I periodically decompensate,” he told CubaNet.
Currently, he has bacteria (pseudomonas of the mucoid variety) colonized in both lungs. “It infects my lungs with secretions, blocking my airways and filling my lungs with phlegm, which is a danger to my life.”
“If the bacteria goes into the blood, I won’t tell the story,” he told our editorial team.
Pedro Quiala Carmenate is from Holguin, specifically from the Mayarí municipality, although he lives in Havana Old since 2012, in a building in danger of collapsing. His illness is aggravated by the lack of suitable medications to treat it.
“I have a lifelong treatment with a specific diet and medication, but the regimen gives me whatever medication is available at the time, it almost never has to give me what I have to last longer with this disease,” he said in an interview. to CubaNet years back.
Although he has a degree in basic electronics, his health does not allow him to work due to the infections he suffers regularly.
Their life passes between bronchodilators (medicines that relax the muscles that surround the airways and make breathing easier) and strong antibiotics such as cephalosporins: ceftazidime, cefepime and ceftriaxone.
