The Provincial Health Directorate in Villa Clara created a commission to investigate a video released on April 10, which shows a technician assaulting a patient at the Dr. Luis San Juan Pérez psychiatric hospital.
The commission, activated after the viralization of the material in social networks, seeks to clarify the details of the aggression captured in a medical center room. “In the video the situation is clearly observed, which we repudiate vigorously and goes against our principles,” reads the authorities’ statement.
The first analyzes indicate that the incident, initially shared in X by the user Rubén Carrillo, occurred in a room that was painted green approximately 15 days ago, suggesting that the video is not recent.
“It is equally painful to know that the person who recorded the video did not intercede to avoid the fact or immediately denounced it to the corresponding authorities,” says the Provincial Health Directorate, which would have allowed “acting immediately.”
It is not the first time that negligent facts of this type come to light in the Cuban public health system. In 2010, The authorities confirmed The death of 26 patients at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital, popularly known as Mazorra.
According to the officiality, the deaths occurred as a result of the cold wave that affected the country in January of that year, low prolonged temperatures of up to 3.6 degrees Celsius in Boyeros, where the hospital is located.
