Dental clinic has been closed for over two months after truck crash in Matanzas.

The most important dental clinic in Matanzas has been closed for over two months since a truck hit a pole on March 4th, leaving the institution without electricity, in a clear example of the negligence and sluggishness of the regime in not resolving the situation.

The local government's inaction affects the 19,172 patients attended by the clinic, who are forced to seek assistance at other healthcare centers to address their issues. Furthermore, the delays harm the care provided to pregnant women, a program that the regime boasts as "priority" in the National Public Health System.

According to Dr. Bárbara Serrano Romaguera, director of the institution, after the impact on the pole, which caused the transformer to fall, releasing its internal oil, it was decided that the remaining ones would be removed, as reported by the state-run newspaper Girón.

Serrano denounced that due to the insistence of the health center workers, the regime placed the three transformers back in place on March 21, "but without activating them," he emphasized.

The doctor recounted that there the odyssey began because, three days later, "the workers from the Electric Company returned and took the first one. On May 6, they repeated the same action with the second, and a week later, the third one," all without informing her, she pointed out.

Serrano indicated that they have reported the problem to all government instances, as well as to the Electric Company and even to the provincial Public Health union; however, "we continue without a response," he said.

In addition to the impact on patients, workers' dissatisfaction is significant, as they are facing salary cuts due to the impossibility of payments for special conditions, only carrying out field activities, warned the management.

This discomfort within the workforce is exacerbated by the fact that they are unable to receive their full salary, which is insufficient in the current economic crisis.

Additionally, the doctor warned about another issue if the clinic remains closed: "We have the material resources to make dental prostheses, but their properties are lost with this situation. For example, the wax deforms with intense heat and we have to start from scratch."

In the current scenario, where health centers are severely affected by the shortage of medical supplies, it is unjustifiable that the regime delays addressing the issue of the lack of electricity in the main stomatology clinic in Matanzas.

Last January, a Cuban woman reported that her father was denied medical care at a hospital in Guantánamo due to a lack of supplies, and instead "they sent him home to die without providing him with first aid".

"Good afternoon, friends, family, acquaintances, and all those who feel identified. At this moment, we are going through a critical situation with my dad, better known as 'El Indio del Reparto Obrero', where he was denied care at the General Hospital. They say it was due to a lack of resources (gloves, gauze, sodium chloride, tweezers, etc...," recounted this woman from Guantánamo who identifies herself on Facebook as Nora GR.