Cuban father shouts for medicine for his daughter on the streets of Havana

Andcuban father he cried outmedicines for his daughter through the streets ofHavana, according to information shared on networks.

“I just found this man on the street shouting that he is looking for Phenobarbital for his little daughter who is sick and has decompensated right now,” he wrote inFacebook the user Anyi Melek García.

He also commented that “this is the second time I have met him, he lives in the municipality of Guanabacoa. He asked me to make the post and share it. I wish I had the medicine to give him, here I will leave Mr.'s number 55093684. His name is Humberto.”

After the publication, a user commented: “What a sad thing, how desperate he must be. I don't have it if I wouldn't be happy to give it to you."

Likewise, other Internet users offered to help this father find the medicine.

Phenobarbital or phenobarbitone is a barbiturate, first manufactured by Bayer. The World Health Organization recommends it to treat certain types of epilepsy.

While this Cuban father desperately searches for medicine for his sick daughter in the Cuban capital, in other locations they are sold in the middle of the street, without control and at supply and demand prices.

In the last week it emerged howThe vendors of La Cuevita, in the San Miguel del Padrón municipality, have almost any medicine needed in Cuba and, although its prices are high for many pockets, impoverished by the regime's erroneous decisions, it is one of the few places where you can purchase drugs when you do not have a family member abroad.

Whilesome pharmacies receive only 18% of the medications that Cuban patients need, including the chronic and dependent, the government looks to one side and grants a privateering license to street vendors, who ended up appropriating another front abandoned by the regime.

Furthermore, last May,The Cuban government confirmed that there is a "significant" deficit in anti-cancer drugs and antibiotics in the country., in the middle of a seriousshortagein national pharmacies.

To alleviate this situation, the recurring measure has beenextend the tariff exemption for the import of food, hygiene and medicines via the passenger route as accompanied luggage, which has been in force since 2021. Via the route, many families receive medicines from abroad or can buy them in the street medicine market that grows larger every day.