Once again, the Cuban community is mobilizing on social media in search of medication for a one-and-a-half-year-old girl who has recently undergone kidney surgery, and the necessary drug is not available in the Caribbean country.
A woman identified as Mailin Berbes turned to Facebook for help in finding a medication called dactinomycin, which is needed for little Nasly Vento.
Dactinomycin is a medication used in combination with other drugs, surgery, and/or radiation therapy to treat Wilms' tumor (a type of kidney cancer that occurs in children) and rhabdomyosarcoma (a cancer that forms in the muscles) in young patients.
"She had surgery on a kidney 15 days ago, and then a biopsy was performed because the girl’s hemoglobin levels dropped, revealing a small malignant tumor of the most aggressive kind," she wrote on social media.
The woman emphasized that anyone who can assist her should contact her at the phone number 51371751.
On numerous occasions, people turn to social media to find medications and medical supplies that are in short supply in Cuba's pharmacies and hospitals.
Solidarity is often the only lifeline for children and the elderly amid a landscape of scarcity that, as announced by the regime, is expected to persist.
Recently, the young Ángel Ernesto, bedridden since 2018 due to an accident, requested assistance in obtaining necessary medications and medical supplies that are not provided by the Castro regime, in order to improve his quality of life.
Also in March, Cuban political activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia called on people to show solidarity in obtaining medicine for a child suffering from a rare genetic disease that typically manifests during childhood.
The minor is named Neroy García Roldán and suffers from Alagille syndrome.
This condition is characterized by the liver's inability to drain bile into the intestine, resulting in the accumulation of bile in the body, inflammation of the liver tissue, and poor intestinal absorption.
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