The Public Health Commission in Villa Clara, activated after the viralization of a video that shows a technician assaulting a patient at the Dr. Luis San Juan Pérez psychiatric hospital, determined to separate the person responsible from the medical center.
The worker, of which only the HBC initials were given to protect their identity, occupied the emergency services assistant square since July of last year and “recognized their participation in this repudiable act” when interviewed.
The authorities determined to separate it “definitely” from the work center and leave the case in the hands of the judicial bodies “for the relevant legal actions.”
“We express our most sincere solidarity with the victim and her family, deeply regretting the suffering caused,” reads the statement released in Facebook.
In a previous message, the Provincial Health Directorate of that province acknowledged that “in the video the situation is clearly observed, which we repudiate vigorously and goes against our principles.”
The first analyzes indicated that the incident, initially shared in X by the user Rubén Carrillo, occurred in a green -painted room, which suggested that the video was not recent.
Health authorities investigate patient aggression in Villa Clara psychiatric hospital
“It is equally painful to know that the person who recorded the video did not intercede to avoid the fact or immediately denounced it to the corresponding authorities,” says the Provincial Health Directorate, which would have allowed “acting immediately,” added the text.
It is not the first time that negligent facts of this type come to light in the Cuban public health system. In 2010, The authorities confirmed The death of 26 patients at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital, popularly known as Mazorra.
According to the officiality, the deaths occurred as a result of the cold wave that affected the country in January of that year, low prolonged temperatures of up to 3.6 degrees Celsius in Boyeros, where the hospital is located.
