Holguin/In a country where medical resources are scarce and health centers deal daily with deficiencies, the case of a woman who passed by nurse at the Lenin hospital in Holguín has lit the alarms. According to the complaint published in the official hunter hunter profile, Belkis Bauzá was surprised when she simulated medical work without having a diploma, an official accreditation.
The networks in networks details that, in addition to deception, the false professional mounted its own “business” within the area of births, combining the use of hospital beds with an improvised sale of health supplies. “This is not enough, it is playing with the health of the people,” warns the Facebook publicationthat demanded “without anesthesia” sanctions for those who “look with the needs of others.”
“I had been operating for a while but everything exploded because it proposed a bed, paid of course, to the companion of a patient and she denounced her thinking she was a real nurse,” he tells 14ymedio A hospital source. “This case came to the Internet and a scandal was generated because someone reported it to the address but that happens every day here, the workers have to do their trapicheo to survive.”
The Vladimir Ilich Lenin de Holguín University Hospital does not escape the problems that the Gynecology and Obstetrics Centers Network throughout the country is going through
With their dark corridors, dirty and less and less personnel to attend pregnant women, due to the professional and migratory exodus, the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University General Hospital of Holguín does not escape the problems that the network of gynecology and obstetrics centers throughout the country is going through. “There are people who try to do their work with dignity but that is increasingly difficult,” recognizes the same source.
“We lack security personnel, cameilleros, anesthetists and even pantrists,” he warns. “This is a miracle that we continue to bring children to the world here because it is increasingly difficult.”
The episode with Bauzá arrives at a time when the Cuban maternal crisis becomes increasingly visible. In the provincial gynecobstric teaching hospital José Ramón López Tabranes, in Matanzas, pregnant women must also overcome the lack of basic supplies, such as He recently told This newspaper. There Yamila, 22, was already preparing a few days ago her bag for childbirth not only with baby’s clothes, but with syringes, suture threads, gloves, fan, cutlery and even a palangana to bathe.
The deterioration of the facilities is evident: cockroaches on the walls, cameras smoking in the windows and consultations that prioritize those who arrive with “gifts”
The deterioration of the facilities is evident: cockroaches on the walls, cameras smoking in the windows and consultations that prioritize those who arrive with “gifts” for the staff. Even pregnant with risk, such as Leticia – Diabetics and with bleeding – they report hours for hours due to lack of priority attention.
The province of Matanzas has gone from registering almost 8,000 births a year after 4,000 in 2024, with a birth rate of 6.6 per 1,000 women, one of the worst in the country. Migration of young women, lack of housing, high prices and insufficient salaries complete the picture of a crisis that affects both demography and public health.
In this context, cases such as Belkis Bauzá reflect not only the vulnerability of the health system, but also the loss of confidence of a population that, between fear and resignation, knows that giving birth in Cuba is today an obstacle career. In the list of concerns, the presence of false personnel is only another risk that adds to a panorama already marked by scarcity and deterioration.
