17-year-old Cuban girl with diabetes dies after complications from a blind pimple

A 17-year-old Cuban girl suffering from diabetes died on Isla de la Juventud after complications with a blind pimple that caused an infection.

Emely Álvarez was the mother of a two-year-old child and since the beginning of February she had been in a coma, after her organs stopped working due to the complications of her illness and an infection caused by a blind pimple, a news portal reported. local independent calledCuban maple on Tuesday.

Dozens of people on social networks have stated that "Island of Youth is in mourning."

"It's incredible how life is so unfair, it takes away such young and good people, and there are still people in this world so bad that sometimes I don't understand God. Emely Álvarez, rest in peace, pretty chinita; take care of your family and your baby, who now more than ever will need you. Fly high, so high until you become the prettiest little star and the one that shines brightest in the sky," a friend of the young woman posted on Facebook.

Diabetes is among the 10 main causes of death in Cuba.

This Saturday the complaint of a Cuban doctor about thesituation of diabetes patients who need the amputation of a foot or a leg and are abandoned to their fate in the Island's hospitals.

Lucio Enriquez Nodarse, resident in Spain, shared on his Twitter account the photos of a 62-year-old diabetic patient, who is admitted to the Miguel Enríquez hospital (La Benéfica), in Havana, where she has practically been sentenced "to a slow and painful death."

"More of medical impotence! Diabetic patients with acute ischemia in the lower limbs are terminally ill in intermediate therapy services until they are allowed to die without proceeding to amputation, which would be the surgical treatment that corresponds to saving their lives" , denounced the doctor.