AREQUIPA, Peru – The Minister of Transportation in Cuba, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila reported that the municipality of Imías once again had a land connection with Guantánamo this Saturday night. This, after this road was closed for almost a week as a result of the passage of Hurricane Oscar.
“The vehicular passage for Imías allows us to immediately begin food and donation operations for the recovery of the municipality there,” says the owner. on Facebook.
The minister recalled that trips lasting seven hours, sometimes longer, and requiring much greater fuel consumption were being made through Moa-Baracoa. “Now in two hours from the provincial capital you can reach Imías,” he stressed.
For its part, this Sunday the state media Cubadebate published that the 17 patients with emergency services that the health system in Imías transferred by air to the provincial hospital and that of Baracoa, after the passage of Hurricane Oscar, are stable, some already returning home.
According to the official note, full-term pregnant women, four infants, patients with cerebrovascular diseases, a myocardial infarction, and other patients with decompensated heart disease were transferred.
The passage of Hurricane Oscar
The hurricane hit the eastern part of Cuba on October 20. Although the meteorological event barely reached category one on the Saffir-Simpson scale, it was one of the most devastating in recent years.
The absence of a prevention protocol by the Civil Defense has been pointed out by the Cubans who suffered on site the impact of the meteorological phenomenon or that they are searching for their relatives, missing since last October 20, when Oscar made landfall.
In the provincial capital of Guantánamo, the winds were felt and it rained a lot, but the worst scenario was in Baracoa, Imías and San Antonio del Sur, where the hurricane, later a tropical storm, remained “almost stationary”.
In San Antonio del Sur, where there was an unprecedented flood, so far there were six deadamong them a five-year-old girl and three elderly people who were over 80 years old.
A Cuban resident in that municipality, complained to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel that he was in charge of 29 children in the Special School during the passing of Oscar in their area and no one came to rescue them, as revealed in a video published by the media Martí News.
During a tour of Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman, in that area, shocked Because of the floods, a Cuban told the president that the regime abandoned them.
“They left us alone there, 29 children. I had to evacuate the children, we almost couldn’t,” said the man from Guantanamo from one of the areas affected by Oscar.
