And young man fainted due to hunger on a street in Santiago de Cuba and he was able to recover thanks to the solidarity of the people who happened to pass by the place and gave him food.
The video of the sad event was shared on Facebook by the independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who noticed the fact that Fainting due to hunger in the city does not believe in age.
According to what witnesses told the reporter, the boy fainted and fell in the middle of a public street because I hadn't eaten anything all day and he was helped by people on the street.
"The The young woman who sent the material was the one who brought him the bread and ham so that the fainted person could recover and reach his home," he said.
The affected person, who due to the clothes he is wearing must be a person of low economic resources, has been seen wandering around the city center and along Avenida Martí. This last place could be your permanent residence.
"I ask my followers that if they know who this young man is, please send me his personal information, address and photos of the conditions in which he lives, so that I can make the appropriate complaint," asked Mayeta Labrada, who called on social workers, health institutions and other responsible people to care for people who need help.
The journalist warned that when hypoglycemia (lower than normal blood glucose level) is mild or moderate, it can be easily treated, but it can cause serious complications, such as fainting, coma or death.
"Be very careful with these fainting spells that are increasing every day in the Cuban population"he warned.
In the comments section of the publication, several Internet users said that they know the boy, whom they identified as Alejandro, who has psychiatric problems, but is not aggressive.
"He is a resident of the El Resplandor neighborhood here, he is a healthy boy, he doesn't mess with anyone and he is in great need of financial resources, and his mother also has mental problems," said a young man.
It is increasingly common to see people fainting on the streets of Cuba, as the economic crisis that shakes the country worsens.
Last Thursday, around 11:00 am, a old man collapsed in the small square in the Altamira district, in Santiago de Cuba.
According to what local residents told Mayeta Labrada, the man was helped by people who were there and workers from a nearby winery prepared him a glass of water with sugar that revived him a little.
"He fainted completely and even urinated upstairs. 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.
Good Samaritans helped the little old man, who could barely stand, to get a taxi. He only had a bag with him in which there were some empty wells.
At the end of March, another malnourished 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.
The man, dependent on two crutches to move, was helped by other elderly people who were in line.
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