Mexico City, Mexico- “In this National Hospital there is no treatment material, there is no water, there is no ambulance, there is no doctor who attends on time, there is no plaster and I believe (that) if they continue to delay I will lose the mobility of my fingers. And it is said that we are a medical powerhouse,” he wrote. Hansel Sarmiento in a Facebook post.
Hansel was the victim this week of an attempted theft of his cell phone from which he was injured. “I almost lost my hand. This was because of my phone, but they did not take it from me, I beat myself up after having been cut on the skull, shoulder, elbow, wrist and finger, but I took the machete away from him, ”he recounted days ago.
The boy was admitted to the National Hospital due to the deep cuts he suffered on his hand. However, the conditions there to serve you are null.
“I am the boy who was assaulted, I need help with the medicines, please, it is important. I can lose my fingers and hands, ”said Sarmiento, who has used the networks to update on his health status and request help.
Hansel needs cephalexin, analgesics and any anti-inflammatory and triple antibiotic, a friend of hers specified in networks. “On Thursday they re-admit him to the National Hospital to operate on his hand,” she explained.
While we see how they build one hotel after another and export the medicines that are produced in the country, the lack of basic medical supplies continues to be reported throughout the country. Deaths have even been reported in hospitals lack of resources.
Faced with this panorama and the state’s lack of protection, people turn to social networks to ask for help, whether it is requesting medicines, help with food, transportation.
In January, in Artemis, A 15-year-old girl died who was admitted with dengue hemorrhagic fever. She needed vitamin K, injectable Omeprazole and Phenytoin in vials, medications that she did not have at the hospital.
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