Users report similar symptoms in Havana and other provinces, while the lack of medications and the accumulation of garbage that favor the spread of the outbreak persists.
Madrid, Spain.- The health crisis that crosses the province of Matanzas due to the increase in febrile syndromes seems to be limited to that territory. After transcending THE SITUATION IN VARIOUS MATERIAN MUNICIPALITIESreaders of Cubanet In social networks they assured that the disease also affects communities from other provinces of the country.
“It is already complete Cuba,” said one user, while others pointed out cases in Banes, Holguín, and in Havana. “In Havana I have also spent six very hard days, that virus is cruel, I’m already improving,” wrote a habanero.
Another user also reported that the symptoms have it “liquidated”, and warned that the situation will continue to spread while the country “has become a landfill”, in allusion to the accumulation of garbage and the proliferation of mosquitoes.
The concern of citizens is not only related to the expansion of the outbreak, but also to the lack of access to medicines. “My God, and that there are no medications, and buying them overpriced, a money goes away, but we have no other,” said a reader.
“What are going to do, to wait for a pandemic to pick up dead people on the street? They do nothing, there are children sick, elderly, there is no love of the people. This is horrible, I want to cry in seeing how Cubans live,” said another Internet.
So far, health authorities have recognized active dengue circulation and other arbovirus on the island, but have not informed about the magnitude of the infections out of Matanzas.
In Matanzas, municipalities such as Martí, Perico, Colón and Cárdenas have registered a notable increase in febrile syndromes, with entire homes affected by high fever, intense pain and general discomfort. Specific areas such as the beach, Versailles and the Carlos Verdugo, Moncada and Ramón Martínez are among the most beaten.
Local authorities have confirmed the circulation of serotypes 3 and 4 of Dengue, and warn that serotype 2, present in other provinces, could reach Matanzas in the coming weeks. The population denounces that the accumulation of garbage, stagnant water and lack of fumigation are facilitating the propagation of the virus. To this are added the shortage of medicines and the cuts of electricity and water, which worsen the panorama for those who get sick.
