Cuban government reports dengue transmission in eight provinces

The Cuban government reported that there is currently dengue transmission in eight provinces of the country, and four serotypes of that disease are circulating.

The most affected provinces, with the highest number of suspected dengue cases, are Pinar del Río, Villa Clara, Las Tunas, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, said the Minister of Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, before the Health Commission and Sports of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP).

The official considered that there is currently epidemiological stability on the island and that despite the presence of the four dengue serotypes, no province is in an "epidemic zone."

“Dengue, for example, continues to be an endemic disease in Cuba, but what it is about is the ability we have to influence its control through dissemination, the preparation of health personnel and the active participation of the population,” he said.

However, despite the worst supply crisis of supplies in the island's hospitals, the owner justified himself and said that "there are serious problems in guaranteeing supplies," but "they are not standing idly by, but measures are being taken." to address these difficulties.

Several Cuban doctors have reported that they work without resources to attend to emergencies in the island's medical centers, where patients die due to lack of medicines, and even ambulances.

Exiled doctor Alexander Figueredo has been making the same complaints for years about the lack of supplies in the country's hospitals, and for this reason he has been a victim of repression and harassment to the point of having to leave the country under government pressure.

In 2021 he said in an interview with CiberCuba that "theState has to provide doctors with the means to 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.