Survivor of the explosion at Hotel Saratoga: “Only scars remain from that day”

Luis Enrique Suárez Estrada, one of the survivors of the Saratoga hotel explosion, said he was in perfect health a year after the tragedy from which “only scars and bad memories remain.”

“Today marks one year since the fateful accident at the Saratoga Hotel, eternally grateful to the medical staff for so much effort and dedication to all the victims, in the end it was worth all their hours of sleeplessness because they managed to save many lives, including mine, which was very serious", wrote Suárez Estrada in a Facebook post.

The young man thanked the staff of the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery where he remained admitted for almost a month.

“Once again, many thanks to the entire INN group and to God who put his hand in me, mentioning names, there were many in charge of keeping me alive and keeping my family, friends and co-workers who at that time with courage and a lot of faith. “They came to the Institute to find out about my status,” he concluded.

Suárez Estrada, a native of Granma, was passing near the hotel at the time of the explosion that claimed the lives of 47 people, including 4 minors.

The young Cuban, initially reported to be in serious condition, He was operated on by three different medical teams in different parts of your body during the same surgical intervention.

“I have seen videos. In fact, my aunt showed me videos of when I came out, of when they took me out and people said 'he's alive, he's alive', but I don't remember anything else," he told Cuban television when he was discharged from the hospital.

This Saturday, one year after the powerful explosion that destroyed the Saratoga Hotel in the Cuban capital, relatives, colleagues and friends of the deceased They paid tribute to the 47 fatalities of the tragic event.

“This morning, at the Fountain of India Monument, tribute was paid to the victims of the explosion at the Saratoga Hotel, one year after the catastrophe,” the official newspaper indicated on its social networks. Rebel Youth.

Images shared in his publication showed a long line of “inhabitants of the Cuban capital, family, friends, work colleagues, members of the Red Cross, youth and union leaders” who placed flowers in memory of the victims of an event “that “It moved and mobilized the country in a wave of solidarity.”