The hospitals in the province of Holguín do not have blood to transfuse patients, a situation that endangers the life of a woman, admitted urgently to a local medical center, according to complaints from a family member.
"She is my Mom, her name is Marlenis Velázquez Vega, and at this moment she is admitted urgently to the (Vladimir Ilich) Lenin hospital here in Holguín since Monday, July 14, she has been in this provincial hospital since Monday due to intense hemorrhage caused by a desmoplastic fibroma with bleeding," he said in Facebook the man, identified as Omarito Ney.
The doctors also told her that the fibroid will only be solved with an operation but there is also no "what it takes" to perform such a procedure. "I told them that I would get everything that was necessary and the room specialist told me that they would not give me the operating room," he said.
She says that she has managed to get "four donations of type (O NEGATIVE) blood for her" because the hospital and the provincial blood bank told her that they did not have blood for the woman.
"At the moment he is seriously ill in the room based on serums with hemoglobin at 5 and he needs more blood donations and the hospital tells me that I will send them, but I have already exhausted all the avenues I had, I no longer know what to do," he said desperately.
The young man made the publication "in case anyone has the blood group (OR NEGATIVE) or knows someone with this group" to help him save his mother's life, and left the number 55834479 to locate him.
The Cuban government promotes blood donation throughout the country but there are constant complaints that it is not enough for hospitalized patients.
However, last May it emerged that the regime sold blood and its derivatives; human tissues and organs worth $1,323 million US dollars, between 1995 and 2019, according to an investigation by the NGO Archivo Cuba (AC) on businesses in Havana in the health field, which includes forced extractions from prisoners and those shot.
AC revealed part of his research to CyberCuba, following voluntary donations from Cubans moved by the Saratoga hotel explosion, which caused 46 deaths and 99 injuries; but they are unaware of the government's million-dollar business with the sale of blood and its derivatives, tissues, glands and human organs, explained its executive director María Werlau.
A part of the tissues, glands and organs sold could be derived from animals or obtained artificially in laboratories, according to the experience of consulted experts; But there are no figures that separate the origin of each product exported by the Cuban government, Werlau said; which is finalizing the 2020 figures.
That investigation remains open.
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