Díaz-Canel assures that there is no longer a shortage of medicinal oxygen in Cuba

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez assured that there is no longer a shortage of medicinal oxygen in Cuba and Twitter users criticized his government's management in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

"The production of medicinal oxygen has recovered its optimal levels, with which the daily needs of the Health system are already covered," he wrote this Wednesday on the social network.

The governor mentioned that the inventory "of this essential product" was also recovered.

"We have worked hard, in the midst of difficult conditions," he concluded in his message.

Díaz-Canel received criticism from Internet users who reminded him how It was hidden for months that the country's main plant was broken, just when hospitals and health centers needed it most.

"You worked hard to hide for more than two months the breakage of the main oxygen plant in the middle of the pandemic. The breakage occurred on May 26 and was only published on August 15. We would never have found out if the news did not explode in social networks," said one user.

Another person reminded him of the more than eight thousand deaths from coronavirus that are officially recognized in Cuba, while money was allocated to the construction of hotels.

"Thousands of deaths later because you diverted the country's little money to build hotels and buy cars without tourists throughout 2020 and part of 2021. Criminal resignation," he wrote.

Cubadebate mentioned Díaz-Canel's tweet and referred to the shortage of medicinal oxygen as a "limitation", ignoring the hospital chaos generated by the lack of treatment to care for patients in intensive care and with respiratory problems in emergency rooms across the country.

The state press said that as an "alternative" small factories were made available to the Cuban health system, to which were added imports and donations from different countries, and by this they refer to local initiatives, such as the use of compressed air in replacement of medical oxygen.

Specialists criticized the use of this treatment in patients with coronavirus in Cuba, especially due to the clinical picture of the disease and the need to use the correct means to preserve life in the most serious cases.

At the beginning of September, the state company OxiCuba announced that Recovery of medical oxygen demand would take months, although he did not specify how many.

At that time, the plant that produces medicinal gas processed about 70,000 cubic meters per day, so it is assumed that the figure today is higher due to the lack of official data that would allow it to be verified.

UNICEF donated two medicinal oxygen production plants to Cuba and one of them was installed in the Doctor Carlos J. Finlay military hospital in Havana.

Despite CyberCuba wrote to the entity to provide more details about the second floor, so far we have not received a response in this regard nor have the official press made the location known.