The Cuban activist Diasniurka Salcedo She is admitted to the Calixto García hospital in Havana and urgently needs medication.
His friends have appealed to social networks to request metronidazole, ciprofloxacin and diclofenac, drugs that the human rights defender urgently needs.
According to medical information, the activist, who suffers from diabetes, has been complicated by a pancreatitis and his life is in danger.
Dozens of Internet users recalled that the opposition member has been helping dozens of Cubans get medicine for years, amid the shortage of drugs in the country, and that she recently adopted a baby who was abused by his parents.
"The Opposition and pro #HR Activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia is in the Calixto García. In that place you enter with a simple pain and you leave with good luck alive. Let's be alert! According to information it has now become complicated with Pancreatitis. Acute Pancreatitis can be very dangerous and he could lose his life, please, let us be attentive to this case. We pray for his speedy recovery," his friend Richard Schirrmann posted on Facebook.
The Las Taniadas group also sent him messages of speedy recovery: "Get well, manita! You have done so much good for others! We love you"; as well as the young Tata Poet, who indicated that Salcedo Verdecia urgently needs metronidazole and ciprofloxacin.
The activist frequently suffers harassment from the regime for her humanitarian work managing medicines for people in need.
In January they imposed a fine of 2,000 pesos during an inspection because they considered that he was carrying out the activity on his own account (hairdressing) in an “illegal” manner.
She carries out intense work in Alquízar helping low-income families. In December he gave a donation so that a mother would no longer have to cook with firewood, a television, a bed, a mattress, sheets and children's clothes.
Likewise, she frequently makes donations with money she raises working as a hairdresser, so that Cuban families with fewer opportunities can buy food.
His work showing on social networks the harsh reality that hundreds of families live in Cuba It is not liked by the government.
State Security has kidnapped her on multiple occasions and in some of these cases she has been victim of violence: In January they detained her and did not allow her to inject her insulin. When she was released she had high blood sugar and blood pressure and was bleeding from her nose.
Since last year, Cuba has been going through an unprecedented medicine crisis, and the regime itself has recognized that there are no medicines in hospitals and that the situation will not be solved in the short term.
Salcedo intensified his work in the management of medicines following the frequent outbreaks of scabies that affected dozens of Cuban children last year.
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