“There is no transportation for the sick, but for the Party it was one of the doctor’s questions.
MIAMI, United States. – The independent medium The Scissors He denounced this Sunday on Facebook the “arbitrary detention” of Dr. Pedro Bauta Gómez, known as “Glevis”, a specialist in Psychiatry at the “José Martí Pérez” Teaching Polyclinic in Gibara, Holguinafter publicly questioning the use of state resources by officials.
According to that report, the doctor stated: “There is no transportation for the sick, but there is for the Party” and “The people are dying without care while resources are used for Government privileges.”
According to The Scissorsthe events occurred on Donato Mármol Street, between J. Agüero and Calixto García, in front of the home of Naila Marieta, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Gibara. After being accompanied by an acquaintance to his house, agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) arrested him at his home and transferred him to the Gibara police unit, with an order for transfer to Holguín.
“So far, no formal charges have been brought against him, nor has he been allowed communication with his family or a lawyer,” he said. The Scissors.
In various posts in Facebook groups such as Gibara Revolicoresidents of the Holguín municipality, patients and relatives of the doctor confirm the arrest.
Meanwhile, the report of The Scissors underlines the impact of the arrest on the community: “The situation has left dozens of patients decompensated, since Dr. Bauta was the only one authorized to issue prescriptions for controlled medications in the area.”
In support of the doctor, Gibareño Javier Soler wrote on Facebook: “Doctor, friend and brother. He never said no to anyone who needed it.” And he added: “Politics separates and divides people. This goes beyond, this is about humanity and common sense. That man said what many of us feel, he made the mistake of doing it in the wrong place and the wrong state. Glevis is also a father, a husband and a brother. Gibara does not forget.”
Soler also published a video in which he assures: “I think that the majority of Gibareños (…) have to ask, we have the duty to ask peacefully, for the freedom of Glevis.”
“Everyone knows his work as a psychiatrist and as a doctor,” he added, before finishing: “[Es] of the best recognized doctors in Gibara and they are committing an injustice with him. The least we can do is peacefully ask for that man’s freedom.”
The Scissors He described the case as a violation of fundamental rights and demanded the “immediate release” and respect for the physical and psychological integrity of the Gibareño doctor. “We urge the international community, independent media and human rights organizations to make this new case of repression in Holguín visible,” he concluded.
