Family doctors sanctioned for not intervening in the case of a Cuban child operated on after dipyrone injections.

Dailin de Moya Escalona, the general director of Public Health in the municipality of Palma Soriano, has already assigned responsibility for the medical negligence reported in the case of a seven-month-old Cuban baby, Lian Coronado Babastro, who was urgently operated on this Tuesday at the La Colonia hospital in Santiago de Cuba, after receiving several injections of dipyrone that caused an abscess in one of his buttocks and inflammation in his legs and testicles. He suffered an infection that nearly cost him his life.

According to the person responsible for the Health system in that municipality of Santiago, the only ones to blame for what happened are the family doctors who provided primary care to the child before he was admitted with a fever to the Juan Vitalio Acuña hospital in Palma Soriano, where he received dipyrone injections to lower the fever, which, according to the family, was due to a reaction to the six-month vaccine, but which was interpreted in that hospital as a symptom of a viral process.

Dailin de Moya has decided in record time that the doctors at the clinic, who did not intervene during the five days the child was hospitalized until his condition worsened and he had to be transferred to the intensive care unit of La Colonia, in Santiago, should be sanctioned with a 5% deduction from their monthly salary.

The minor's uncle, Lixander Babastro, a resident of the United States, wrote last week to the State Council and the Ministry of Public Health, denouncing the poor care his nephew was receiving at the children's hospital in Palma Soriano, where none of the tests conducted detected that the child had a hemoglobin level of 6, so he had to receive an urgent transfusion as soon as he arrived in serious condition at the pediatric hospital in the provincial capital.

Those letters and the news published on the same Tuesday in CiberCuba set everyone in Palma Soriano into motion, but they have unjustly shifted the responsibility. "They blamed the primary care doctors, who have nothing to do with what happened to the boy. They applied a 5% salary discount to them when the culprits are in the nursing and medical team of the pediatric hospital and the municipal director for their misconduct. Family doctors have nothing to do with that measure imposed on them. But as the saying goes, they want to pass the hot potato," lamented the uncle of the recently operated baby.

Lixander Babastro himself has contacted the Provincial Directorate of Public Health to explain that they are blaming doctors who are not guilty, but they have not taken his opinion into consideration.

For Babastro, it is Dailin de Moya herself who must take responsibility for lying to her family in Cuba, claiming that she had requested an ambulance to transfer the child to Santiago, although she had not made any arrangements. When confronted, she told relatives that the baby was not the most serious case she had in that hospital and to prevent them from constantly questioning her, she declared them "persona non grata" and barred them from entering the pediatric ward.

It was Dailin de Moya's decision for the minor to spend 24 more hours in Palma Soriano, after the inflammation of his extremities and testicles was detected, to arrive directly in very serious condition to the intensive care unit at La Colonia.

The child's uncle insists on demanding explanations and has contacted the health authorities in Santiago de Cuba by phone, but since he is out of the country, he has been told that they will not provide any information because those explanations will only be given to someone who is on the Island.