Young Cuban woman dies with cancer days after receiving a humanitarian visa

The young CubanYenisley Perdomo, who had been fighting cancer for more than a year, died in Havana, days after receiving a humanitarian visa to seek treatment abroad, sincein Cuba he was not receiving any treatment.

The activistDiasniurka Salcedo Verdecia He announced the news on his profile.Facebook, where he stressed that the deceased, the mother of a girl, was about to fly abroad when she unfortunately succumbed to the disease.

"A few days ago I received the news thatthis humanitarian visa had been approved. Due to paperwork issues, the process was delayed and unfortunately when he was about to fly it was not possible, because he died, leaving an orphaned girl, a mother and a broken family, in which I included myself," he said.

"Fly high, warrior, rest in peace, because this was not the news I wanted to give. Another victim in the hands of the dictatorship! Why?" he questioned.

In September, theYenisley's mother sent a message to Cuban-American congressmen María Elvira Salazar and Marcos Rubio so that they will process a humanitarian visa for their daughter to attend in the United States.

It was a desperate cry that Gina Sao uttered forhis daughter, who had breast cancer with bone and liver metastases.

"Please help me. This murderous dictatorship is killing my daughter. She is sick with cancer and does not receive any treatment. She needs an urgent humanitarian visa," he then asked on his Facebook.

Gina specified that her daughter was only 37 years old. and could die from lack of medical attention.

"In her last admission they almost killed her, her health deteriorates day by day," he stressed.

Gina had been denouncing for some time the poor medical services, the lack of supplies in hospitals and the precariousness of health care in Cuba.

In August, the woman reported that in MayThey had a CT scan on their daughter and at the hospital they lost the results. That forced her to make a second appointment that took three months, but when she went to the cancer hospital, the equipment was broken.

"My daughter has breast cancer with bone and liver metastases. The abandonment in which the people of Cuba live is too much, without medicines, without food and without medical care," stressed the troubled mother who finally lost her daughter.