After an intense wave of rumors, Public Health of Santiago de Cuba has confirmed that two employees of the Doctor Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo Hospital have been arrested after having seized “hearts of possible human origin.” The incident had been denounced last Friday by a Twitter user who demanded explanations about this “terrifying and creepy” event.
“Certainly, there are two workers from the reference hospital who work as Eviscerator and Occupational Therapy, arrested on December 9, 2022 for an alleged criminal act, having seized two hearts of possible human origin,” reads the brief note spread on the Facebook page of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of Santiago de Cuba this Saturday.
The entity clarifies that both employees are currently “in the investigative process by the bodies of the National Revolutionary Police and a commission” of the sector that seeks to clarify the fact. The text already accumulates hundreds of comments from Internet users who demand detailed information about what happened.
The entity clarifies that both employees are currently “in the investigative process by the bodies of the National Revolutionary Police and a sector commission.”
The unusual note from Salud, which rarely alludes to complaints about the operation of its hospitals, came more than 24 hours after Yannis Estrada alert that something had happened. “An employee of the Ambrosio Grillo Hospital, very close to the Santuario del Cobre, was sentenced to 30 years in prison when it was learned that he was extracting organs and body fat from the deceased to crush them and sell them as mincemeat,” he said in a tweet that caused an avalanche of indignation. and questions.
This Saturday, Estrada warned about the official response: “Finally, the Ministry of Public Health of the Cuban regime has ruled on the news that I shared yesterday. I simply received information, published it and cataloged it for what it is: a terrifying fact and creepy.”
Sources in activism and religious life in Santiago de Cuba had already assured 14ymedio of the existence of the rumor, but none had been able to confirm the fact. As the hours went by, however, “it became clear that something had happened because the hospital workers were terrified to speak but did not deny the complaint,” says a neighbor who called the hospital’s telephone board to inquire about what had happened.
In the note from Salud de Santiago de Cuba, the response of the readers ranges from discomfort to the demand for a detailed investigation. For José Hidalgo, the punishment must be severe: “That an exemplary measure be taken. Those are the characters who try to sink our people and there are the others who expect a negative action like that for malicious propaganda.”
Recently, the video of some Cuban children who are skinning several cats to presumably eat them has revived those specters of the past.
But the ghost of the economic crisis and the adulteration of food that the shortage has brought with it is also present among those who think. “Something so serious and just a brief review and that’s it. That is delicate, horrendous and there is more than one person responsible, including the management. What is rumored that I do not doubt is a great crime … There you have to take from the direction to the sellers”, claims another commentator.
Urban legends and confirmed cases of food tampering that proliferated during the economic crisis of the 1990s, officially known as the Special Period, range from floor-cleaning blankets turned into supposed pork steaks and tomato sauces made from food. and dyes, passing the use of antibiotics to replace yeast or melted condoms to imitate the cheese on pizzas.
Recently, the video of some Cuban children skinning several cats to presumably eat them has fueled those specters of the past. Until now, the ruling party had kept silent about these incidents, but the case of the Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo hospital seems to have forced a pronouncement on an issue that has been the focus of Christmas talks in Cuba.
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