MÉRIDA, Mexico – Actor Jorge Losada will have the wheelchair he needs after a request for help was launched this week.
Cuban actor and singer Erich Concepción Quicutis, who lives in Miami, announced that he already has the wheelchair, which he will bring next week.
“I already have the chair, I am managing some medicines and I want to bring him some money for his food. Whoever wants and can, I will personally bring it to him on behalf of all of you. Let us give back with love, to the one who gave us so much love,” said Concepción Quicutis on Facebook.
This week Luis Lacosta, art director at the ICAIC, had said that Losada needed a wheelchair to go out.
Losada did not have the money to buy it and all institutional efforts to obtain it were unsuccessful.
Last May, the veteran actor was discharged from the “Manuel Fajardo” Clinical Surgical University Hospital in Havana, after a month undergoing a rehabilitation treatment for complications arising from a hip prosthesis.
“The actor has improved and feels better from the severe pain he was suffering,” he told Cubanet a person close to the artist who asked to remain anonymous.
Losada, 91, lives on the first floor of a building in the Playa municipality of the Cuban capital, “and the stairs made his pain worse over time,” said another source close to him.
Shortly before, in an interview with CubanetLosada recalled that he was the most veteran of his guild and confessed that he felt very good about the role he played in the soap opera. Be rebornbroadcast by Cuban Television.
“I did it while I was sick, but I felt very good about the role. It is my farewell to the public,” said.
