A Cuban activist asked for help to get the medicine needed by a child with an advanced nasopharyngeal tumor in Camagüey.
Lenny Antony Rodríguez Pérez, 12, with a stage 4 nasopharynx tumor, with face and cervical skull extension and 80% vascularization, needs the medication Avastin (Bevacizumab), according to activist Yamilka Lafita, who identifies herself on Facebook as Lara Crofts.
Lafita said that “everything was better” with the child's illness, but without the medication “the general pain and discomfort returned.”
Avastin helps prevent the formation of new blood vessels and is used to treat many different types of cancer, according to specialized sites.
“With my heart in my hand and crushed, I strongly ask those who can help him to contact his mother Yusmeri +53 51834559 or Yosdelmis +53 59028896,” the post concludes.
In the midst of a social and economic crisis, they are becoming more frequent the requests for help from Cubans on social networks in search of medicines and supplies, and criticism of the government for leaving the health system helpless.
In May, a Cuban mother denounced the situation of the Santa Clara pediatric hospital, where there are no medications that his three-year-old daughter, who suffers from cancer, needs.
Wanny Espinosa went to social networks to try to get drugs for her daughter Dashlie, who is being treated in oncology area four of the José Luis Miranda García Provincial Pediatric Hospital, where she was detected with Wilms' tumor, which requires treatment. chemotherapy.
Recently, the Cuban Government admitted that A total of 251 medicines manufactured in Cuba are missing, which represents 40% of those in the basic table.
Oncological medications, for their part, have presented instability in deliveries throughout the first half of the year, acknowledged Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma, during a meeting of the Cuban parliament.
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