Arequipa, Peru – Dr. Miguel Ángel Ruano Sánchez, president of the Free Cuban Medical Guild, shared details on social networks about the funeral and last goodbye to be held in honor of the Damir child in Miami.
As the doctor wrote On Facebookthe small funeral will take place on the coming Sunday, April 20 from 6:00 pm and until 10:00 pm at the funeral home Caballero Rivero, of Hialeah, located at 373 W 9th St #377, Hialeah, FL 33010.
“Thanks to the people of the funeral home for being so professional! Thank you,” Ruano Sánchez ratified, who has been linked to the case of the child since before his departure from Cuba.
Little Damir Ortiz, 10 years old, died last Saturday during the early morning in Miami, United States, after several weeks of hospitalization at Nicklaus Children’s hospital. The fact shocked the Cubans on and off the islandwho have expressed their support and condolences in social networks.
According to He reported this week The activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, after the funeral honors, the child’s ashes will remain in the United States with their mother Eliannis Ramírez, who has already submitted a request for political asylum. “For reasons we all know,” he said.
The case of little Damir
Damir’s case has moved many, especially because in Cuba his situation was discouraging. His mother denounced that doctors on the island evicted him and even gave him dead. In fact, they denied the documentation required for a humanitarian visa and badly diagnosed.
After his departure from Cuba, Eliannis Ramírez said that the diagnosis of Cuban hematologists was not only incorrect, but was also marked by A dishonest attitude: “I half trusted (…) Cuban hematologists because they cried with me, but are false as the diagnosis they issued in less than 24 hours.”
Before his transfer to Miami, Damir had diagnosed Burkitt’s lymphoma at the Havana Institute of Hematology. However, when arriving at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, American doctors found that the child did not have this disease. Instead, they detected the presence of type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1), a genetic condition that affects nerve tissue and had already caused partial loss of vision in one eye.
In addition to the incorrect diagnosis, Miami specialists discovered that Damir suffered bacterial infections in the lungs, such as Klebsiella and Enterococcus, who had not been identified or treated in Cuba.
“Damir is improving, little to little, because he arrived very sick here to the United States, but it is impressive how in seven days the boy is a little better,” said his mother on Wednesday.
Eliannis Ramírez also strongly criticized the management of the case by health authorities in Cuba. “My son was sought for the worst leukemia in the world, leukemia with a worse prognosis, with such out of me,” he said. According to his testimony, Cuban doctors They considered “imminent” the death of the child and acted negligently by not performing adequate diagnostic tests before issuing their evaluation.
The family faced multiple bureaucratic obstacles to achieve the humanitarian visa that allowed the transfer of Damir to Miami. Activists and the Cuban community in exile played a key role in permits management and fundraising to cover the cost of the procedure.
The case of Damir Ortiz has generated a great impact on social networks and independent media, which have underlined the deficiencies of the health system on the island. Dr. Miguel Ángel Ruano, president of the Free Cuban medical union, described as “irresponsible” the diagnosis made in Cuba and pointed out that on the island the necessary immunohistochemical markers were not applied to confirm the presence of Burkitt lymphoma.
