Matanzas/In Versailles, Matanzas, the accounts are housed by house. “Three patients live in that, in this they are two, including a child, and here we are already four with the symptoms,” describes a neighbor while pointing with his finger the chipped facades of the neighborhood. Uncertainty spreads next to fever: nobody knows with certainty what virus is lying down, and the lack of medications ignites fear more.
On Tuesday morning, several healthcare centers dawned with crowded emergency rooms. Patients with headache, high fever and general discomfort filled the corroded metal banks of guard bodies, such as the beach polyclinic, where Isaac seeks answers. “For three days that this pain does not take away from my eyes. I did not want to come because one loses all morning and there are no medicines here, but I feel very bad,” confesses the 43 -year -old man, who also suffers from diabetes and hypertension.
The health authorities have already confirmed what was feared: in Matanzas circulate the dengue, the chikungunya and, to a lesser extent, the OroPouche. Isaac’s testimony reflects the vulnerability of thousands. “Since 2023 we don’t have a family doctor in the office. What we do have is a landfill by bending my house, near tennis, and a ditch with masonal waters. With so much dirt, we are alive of miracle,” he says with anger.
“Since 2023 we don’t have a family doctor in the office. What we do have is a landfill when I fold out of my house”
Just a few days ago the Yumurí TV page on Facebook published An epidemiological alert For the city of Cárdenas that unleashed alarms in the population, due to the circulation of virosis caused by genre mosquitoes Aedes aegypti. The information warned of “the high incidence of Chikungunya, taking into account the disability caused by people, while dengue circulates as a second variant.”
In the city of Matanzas, the panorama is repeated. The transmission hits strongly in Versailles, the beach and Pueblo Nuevo. Nancy knows it well: last night his 11 -year -old son began with fever and legacles. “I understand that these are Chikungunya symptoms, but he passed by Dengue last year and was admitted. I feared that now he would vomit like that time and brought him immediately to a pediatrician,” he says, squeezing the child’s hand.
Andrés Lamas Acevedo, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the province denied that there was A mysterious disease In Cárdenas, after weeks of reports from communities decimated by a condition that patients describe as very weakening, which causes inflammation in the joints, high fever and general discomfort. The local press has recognized that “the last week was the largest number of febriles of the year” in the province.
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For his part, Dr. Julio Ernesto Hernández Sánchez, Director of Medical Assistance in the province, said there are 298 beds enabled for patients with arbovirosis, distributed in various areas, from minimal care to care to the serious. However, the reality within the Pediatric Hospital Eliseo Noel Caamaño reflects another reality. “They did not want to attend to me because I did not bring the health area remission. Here, in a provincial hospital, there are neither syringes in the body of guard. What can be expected then from a polyclinic? From here I am not going without diagnosis or treatment,” Nancy protests.
As if it was not enough, the matanuses face the health crisis between prolonged blackouts and the shortage of drinking water, which makes it difficult to maintain hygiene in homes. A neighbor of the Navy, loads against official improvisation: “When the situation squeezes, they say they will fumigate. That lasts the fuel. Then, nothing.” He lives in front of a huge puddle of stagnant water that covers the entire Jovellanos street, an outdoor mosquito farm. “My son and my daughter -in -law are in the hospital with pain in the joints. We have the cause in front of our noses,” he says.
The Provincial Health Directorate warns that, according to historical trends, the cases will continue to rise until October, when a plateau will be reached and then, hopefully, a decrease. But Manuel distrusts: “This is only fixed with a complete sanitation of the city. If not, they go out of hand and become an epidemic.”
