What can we say about the old man in Santiago hospital?

Havana.- This Sunday, the General Directorate of Health in the Province of Santiago de Cuba deigned to be referred to with Lto the death of an old man from Guantánamor who died in the hospital Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonsobased in that second city of the Republic.

Of course the issuance of the aforementioned note was not free! The anonymous Guantanamero deserved the attention of the Santiago health bureaucrats just because the matter had been previously addressed in social networks and the independent Cuban press! Otherwise, it would have become to swell the ranks of so many compatriots who, in the rickety hospitals of the island, die of curable diseases, of perfectly overcome health problems!

Once the official note was issued, several organs of the so -called “official press” were considered in the duty to address the issue and comply with what is supposed to be its objective: inform (some verb must be used). Nationally, Cubadebateand on a more local plane Sierra Maestrathe Santiago newspaper, dealt with the matter. Until the moment of writing these lines, he did not do so We will overcomethe organ of the province of origin of the deceased.

Here we must clarify once again, as a journalist, he is forced to use the technical words of our language, although their application to the mass media of Castrocomunism is more than questionable … well, the “coverage” given the matter in Cubadebate and Sierra Maestra The official note was limited to textually, without any additional class comment.

But what does the aforementioned official text say? In their brief five parrafites, Santiago public health bureaucrats strive to dissipate any responsibility that could correspond to doctors and nurses of the aforementioned health center, and to the Castrocommunist system as a whole, in the death of the anonymous patient from Guantanamo.

But the doubts that remain are more than the clarified points. For example, the first paragraph of the note defines the place where the patient was found: “near one of the premises where garbage collectors are deposited, and near their hospitalization room.” And here one has to ask: And why a garbage collection area is located near a “hospitalization room”!…

In the second Parraft it is affirmed that the patient was “still found alive, and due to their state of health and advanced age, the care staff mobilized and transferred it to the Emergency Department, where, despite the timely and intensive treatment, he died.” In this passage, this journalist and lawyer miss something that, in the case of an official note issued by a health service seems something elementary, something like ABC: but what was the cause of death! Why did the patient died despite the “timely and intensive treatment” that say it was given! Why did Cuban “medical power” not managed to free it from the claws of death! …

Another of the parrafitos (the fourth, which is the second most extensive) consecrates to attack against those who broke the official silence: “Drillingly has been disclosed in social networks false information related to this event”, etc., etc. Of course, silence that, thanks to what is published in these alternative media (which, as a rule, has not included falsehoods or has been done irreverently), was that this case has become public knowledge …

As expected, the editors of the note do not enter the reasons that the patient has been able to have, despite his old age and the unknown health problem that had motivated his hospital admission, go out to wander through the halls of the health center … in procure what?

This journalist – then! – was not in the place or has access to first -hand information about the background of this event. But, knowing the disruption that prevails in the current times within the rickety Cuban health system, it should not surprise us that the old man has abandoned his bed to require the services of a nurse, something that shone for his absence in the room in which he remained admitted.

As indicated with success in the published information on the matter in these same pages of Cubanet“This fact occurs in a context of growing concern for the health crisis on the island, marked by the lack of medicines, lack of basic supplies, ruins and problems in services.”

And this newspaper also had, I think, when making a link to the wall of Facebook of the colleague Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who begins his Post consecrated to this case with a question of an insurmountable success: “Does a patient appear dying next to the garbage tanks of a hospital and the fault is … of social networks?”

Mayeta describes the note as an “attempt to clean the image of a broken system, where hospitals are no longer places of healing, but of abandonment.” And he concludes: “This patient did not die from a fall. He died from a system that falls to pieces and that, when faced with the truth, responds with arrogance and accusations.”

Hopefully, thanks to the intense concentrated light on this unfortunate case thanks to the independent press and social networks, the disinformation veils lying on it are broken, and we all get to know the truth, regardless of how sad and unfortunate it is.