Cuban doctor denounces chaotic situation in Bayamo hospital

The Cuban doctorAlexander Figueredo reported this Tuesday that at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes provincial hospital, in Bayamo, patients and health personnel face a chaotic situation due to the total lack of essential medical resources to care for the sick.

The doctor, who had to leave the island due to persecution by the regime, received a letter from the doctors' union of said hospital, where they describe that they do not have any resources to operate or care for patients.

The critical situation in the hospital is reflected in the lack of basic medical supplies such as bandages, sutures, levine tubes, endotracheal tubes and other essential supplies for emergency care.

"This shortage seriously affects the hospital's ability to provide adequate and timely medical care, from cases as simple as appendicitis to more complex pathologies," highlights the doctor.

"I denounce that the people of Bayamo are completely unprotected in terms of health and their doctors are waiting for a response or they will abandon their service," he explained.

He said that although the letter was delivered and signed by the hospital doctors, they have not yet received a response as to how they are going to continue providing terrible care without resources.

Figueredo has been making the same complaints for years about the lack of supplies in the country's hospitals, for which he has been a victim of repression and harassment.

In 2021 he said in an interview withCyberCuba that "the State has toprovide doctors the means of work. If there are no means of protection, the doctor and nurse are not to blame, but they are the ones who will pay. Everything is the doctor's fault: if the pregnant woman is underweight, it is the doctor's fault; If you don't eat well, it's the doctor's fault. In the offices sometimes there are no sphygmuses [sphygmomanometers], nor weights and patients have to be weighed using the weights in the warehouses [of standardized products]. I'm not saying that in all of them, but in the majority," he said on that occasion.