A Medicine student from Santiago de Cuba denounced the terrible quality of the food provided at the university.
The independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada shared on his Facebook profile a photo of the food tray that the students received on Wednesday: rice, watery beans, and some pieces of plantain.
"This is the lunch for the Medical students at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Santiago de Cuba," reported the informant, who chose to remain anonymous.
"The beans even have bugs," he pointed out.
The photographs effectively show the presence of little bugs in the water alongside the grains.
The post generated comments of indignation.
"And that [food] is responsible, there are times when they have been given white rice and a ripe mango. And they demand that students pass their exams or that postgraduates provide quality care to patients. With an empty stomach and the brain in a state of absence due to so many needs. The hours of dedication, study, exams, and shifts, at the very least require good nutrition," pointed out a doctor from Santiago de Cuba.
Apart from everything, we need to inspect the kitchen of that school and the cooks, because not only do they give little food, but it is also bad, poorly prepared, and with a total lack of hygiene, please," requested another resident.
Medical students in Cuba do not escape the various difficulties and setbacks in order to graduate.
Less than a month ago, a student from Sagua la Grande, in Villa Clara, reported that he and his classmates have to travel to the university in a cattle truck, as there are no other means of transportation in that municipality.
One of them sent an anonymous complaint to CiberCuba with a photo showing young girls and boys in the distance, struggling to climb onto the truck with their backpacks on their backs.
"I am sending it to you because it is a shame to have to see and go through this," said the author of the letter.
"We, as students, go through a lot of struggle when it comes to transportation, and also in schools, there's never any food or electricity," he added.
On one occasion, another student from the Mayabeque career challenged the Government to respond how long it will require the people to make more sacrifices without being able to see the slightest sign of progress as a reward.
"How long is the sacrifice without seeing anything in return? Someone is supposed to sacrifice for a purpose, it is not very intelligent to do it in vain, let alone for a whole life. Because these are very difficult days being experienced, this is what the leaders of the country demand, without showing the people what strategy will be taken, how my effort will impact the progress of the nation," wrote Yordy Gómez on Facebook.
"Asking someone to sacrifice themselves without explaining why they are doing it and the goals of that sacrifice is nothing more than lying," said the young man, who decided to write after spending a medical shift without sleeping due to the power outages.
Upon returning home, they found that they also couldn't rest because there was no electricity.
"I want answers, I want to know why I am losing the best years of my life sacrificing myself without seeing any progress and why my parents and my grandparents' parents did it," he demanded.
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