Another elderly man faints on a street in Santiago de Cuba

Once again, an elderly Cuban fainted on the street, a scene that is becoming more frequent these days as the economic crisis that shakes the country worsens.

The independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada shared inFacebook the photos of a rather elderly man who collapsed on Thursday around 11:00 amin the little square of the Altamira district, in Santiago de Cuba.

According to local residents, the man was helped by people who were there andWorkers from a nearby winery prepared him a glass of sugar water that revived him a little.

"He fainted completely and even urinated himself.. Thank goodness for the Miroldo water they gave him, which half revived him before putting him in the taxi that took him to a hospital," said a young woman who helped him.

One of the images released shows how goodSamaritans help the old man, who could barely stand, into the taxi.

At the time of writing the information, the identity of the elderly man was not known, sinceHe only carried a bag in which there were some empty wells.

"I ask my followers in the town of Altamira to please tell us, if they know the man and his family, what state of health he is in," the reporter asked.

Mayeta Labrada recalled that a few years ago that neighborhood was converted into a kind of humanitarian kitchen for the elderly and people with disabilities, who were helped by the opposition José Daniel Ferrer García - today in prison - and the Patriotic Union Organization of Cuba (UNPACU), until the regime ended the initiative, closed the street where José Daniel lives and "left thousands of vulnerable people who fed there unprotected."

Just ten days ago anothermalnourished and sick elderly man suffered an episode of hypoglycemia in a queue on a bench in Santiago de Cuba, standing in the sun and without an available seat despite his advanced age.

Eleutelio Simón Bueno, 90 years old, collapsed during the exhausting wait to collect his pension at the La Comercial bank, located near the roundabout in the José Martí district.

Eleutelio, dependent on two crutches to move, was helped by other elderly people who were in line.