SLP, Mexico.- The family of a Cuban girl with heart disease asked for help to obtain the medications that the infant requires and that are not found in Cuban pharmacies.
The two-year-old’s aunt begged for L-Carlitine and other drugs that are important for the girl but she has no way to get them, according to what she told CubaNet.
“I want to ask you, please, if you can help me with the medications that I need for my daughter, at least L-Carlitine, which is very important for her. Please, I ask you to make my complaint visible, to see who sympathizes and can help me find my daughter’s medication,” said the woman.
His niece, according to the testimony offered to the editorial staff of CubaNetwas admitted for five days to the pediatric hospital in Centro Habana for asthma.
“They did an x-ray, and supposedly due to the same asthma, he had a dilation in his heart. They told parents not to worry because this is the same asthma. They put her on prednisone treatment, they sent her home with the prednisone,” he said.
However, as he alleged, one day he began to experience shortness of breath, and even with prednisone it did not go away. Although they gave her an order to admit her, the person who received her at the pediatric hospital did not want to admit her because there were no pediatricians at the center. “And there were two more important cases, that is, two minors who were there with stab wounds. Well, we returned home and the girl was getting sick every minute.”
Calling another doctor and having arranged an ambulance to transport her, they sent her to another hospital where she was sent to therapy.
“Today it is declared cardiopulmonary. The girl was given certain medications, such as blood pressure pills, captopril, digoxin, furosemide, and aspirin. That 2-year-old girl has all those medications, and there are none in the hospital,” said the aunt.
With low hemoglobin and a transfusion, the girl has worsened. Some medications, according to the doctor, do not come in until day 7.
“Meanwhile, the girl was here decompensated without medication. I went directly to see the directors, the bosses, to see if they would resolve this medication for him,” but to no avail, he said.
The pharmacist who wanted to help the family called the pediatric hospital in Centro Habana and was told that there were all the medications there, but the family denied it. “And today the girl is at home with pressure medication that the family has resolved for her, because there is no medication in the hospital. “He only has two heart medications.”
Cuban mothers do not rest in their battle to find the drugs that would save the lives of their children.
In October, Dariannis Hardy Rodríguez, mother of a 15-year-old teenager with a chronic and irreversible illness, asked for help to obtain a humanitarian visa to save the life of his son, who requires a lung transplant, an operation that is not performed in Cuba.
In conversation with CubaNetAlain’s mother revealed that since he was born, the son’s lung maturation stopped. “Generally these patients “They are not more than a year old, so Alain’s vitality is forced.”
Alain’s status gets worsesaid his mother, adding that the doctors have explained to him that generally these lung diseases are irreversible because the organ deteriorates until it stops working.
At the National Legal Institute of Neomology, they determined that Alain has severe pulmonary obstruction, and the only possible procedure to save his life is a lung transplant. However, as they explained to Dariannis, the operation is not carried out in Cuba.
The shortage of medicines and the lack of options to treat some diseases put the health of Cubans at risk. The relatives appeal to the solidarity of citizens to obtain some help.
