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Little Amanda is evolving satisfactorily after undergoing surgery in Spain

“Amanda lives and this Cuban community is beginning to feel that they can live after being sick for a long time. We can heal, let's do the impossible," said activist Yamilka Lafita, key to the success of this solidarity operation of Cuban civil society.

La pequeña Amanda se recupera tras la operación © Facebook / Lara Crofs
Little Amanda recovers after surgery Photo © Facebook / Lara Crofs

Amanda Lemus Ortiz, the Cuban girl who was undergoing surgery in Spain to remedy the atresia of the bile ducts that he suffers from, he is progressing satisfactorily after the liver transplant operation that was performed this Friday.

“Amanda has had surgery. She was successfully transplanted, thanks to Spanish doctors, to whom I am eternally grateful. The baby still hasn't woken up, the doctors stopped by there recently, saw her, did an ultrasound and then they will return to talk to Mila [the mother] about how everything should be," he reported in his the activist Yamilka Lafita.

Screenshot Facebook / Lara Crofs

The little girl was admitted to the Spanish public hospital in La Paz, in Madrid. His father, Emmanuel Lemus, who was the little girl's donor, was admitted and underwent surgery at the same center for the removal of a portion of your liver. Both are evolving favorably.

“Amanda will have to enter the room again, since yesterday it was decided not to suture the wound. This process is totally normal in transplant interventions. We wait for new decisions. He spent the night well, everything that should be monitored is being monitored and the willingness for everything to continue moving forward is there,” added the activist, also known on social media as Lara Crofs.

At the head of the mobilization that made Amanda's operation possible, Lafita declared herself happy with the news of her progress. “Yesterday was a glorious day for all of us who live in this enormous community of Cubans who are super united in pursuit of saving. “We achieved it after doing everything within our power, we did it,” he said.

After an intense solidarity campaign that managed to raise funds to pay for Amanda and her parents' trip to Spain, find a hospital where the delicate case could be treated and carry out all types of immigration and medical procedures, the Cuban activist expressed the pride and joy that It made him see the result of a collective effort by Cuban civil society.

“I still don't like everything we experienced yesterday. It was great, it was nice, it was enormously exciting, to see how much we can achieve if we get together and put in the effort. “Amanda has a new family, uncles and aunts, grandparents, and we took her in our arms and went out to shout ENOUGH, and we achieved it,” he said.

“Amanda lives and this Cuban community begins to feel that they can live after being sick for a long time. We can heal, let's do the impossible," added the activist exultantly, who also had words of praise and admiration for the little girl's parents.

Of Amanda's father, he said that he was “a warrior father, with clear ideas and an enormous sense of responsibility and life; a father to count on and a friend for all time.”

For its part, Mila Ortiz, the little girl's mother, stated that "she is still there stoic, assuming the risks and the waits: a madrassa in every sense of the word."

Fortunately, the predictions of the Spanish doctors were not fulfilled, who after the first studies on the girl They said that his deterioration was so great that we would have to wait three to four weeks to stabilize various parameters, before taking it to the salon.

Amanda He traveled to Spain at the beginning of March with his parents to undergo a liver transplant that was not possible in Cuba, even though the father met the conditions to be his donor.

The case achieved great notoriety on social networks since the end of January after the little girl's mother asked for forgiveness in an emotional publication on Facebook, for not being able to offer him the medical care and treatment he needed.

His words immediately mobilized thousands of Cubans, inside and outside the Island, who offered economic and emotional support to the family.

In January, given the commotion generated by the minor's situation, MINSAP was forced to issue a statement where he reported that Amanda had a liver transplant from a living donor indicated and that "coordinations are being made with specialized institutions in other countries" to provide a solution.

The organization, more concerned about not continuing to make the case public on the Internet than actually solving the case, received a multitude of criticism from dozens of Cubans, who demanded to know with which countries the supposed coordination was being carried out and how much longer it would last. wait.

"They had forgotten Amanda, if it weren't for her parents who made publications about her situation and they went viral, no one would remember their girl," said a resident of Sancti Spiritus.

"If the girl were the daughter of a high-ranking leader, she would already have had surgery, no more teeth"demanded a Havana woman.

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