Cuban mother asks for help for her son with Down syndrome: "They took my checkbook away from me"

A Cuban mother went to social networks in search ofaid for your16 year old son with Down syndrome, which is lacking disposable diapers, in addition to the fact that the government does not offer it any assistance through Social Security, in the midst of a context ofAccumulated shortages and high prices for basic products.

Herminia Sanchez, mother of Alejandro, the young man with Down syndrome, has shown on the social networkFacebook the desperation he experiences when he is not able to provide his son with the basic things he needs for his life.

Residents in the town of Arroyo Blanco, in the municipality of Jatibonico, in Sancti Spíritus, this mother demands greater attention for her son and argues that she went to social networks because she has nowhere else to turn to raise her problem.

His son needs disposable diapers and cannot find them, in addition to the high prices at which he finds them, and the government has taken away his pension, claiming that the young man has a father who can support him.

“I wonder how many people are being given help who don't need it and still get it,” the woman ended up questioning herself.

In the comments section, people showed their concern about this case and told the mother to go to the government or social workers. However, the woman replied thatShe is tired of going to those institutions and they don't want to solve her. “The things they have told me,” he alleged.

The publications of Cuban mothers who on social networks beg for help to obtain medical supplies or basic products of all kinds that are in short supply throughout the country, are numerous.

At the beginning of the year,a Cuban mother turned to social networks, also, to ask for help for his son who suffers from epilepsy and urgently needs two medications that are lacking in the country.

Thedesperate woman He added that he paid whatever he could for sodium valproate, a mood-stabilizing drug that acts on the central nervous system, and lamotrigine, a molecule used as a medication for epilepsy and bipolar disorder.

HeCuban informal market It has become a source of purchase for Cubans in the face of the shortages in which the government has plunged the country.

Everything happens at a time when the leadership of the regime is asking for trust from a group ofrecently announced economic measures, which more than fixing the country promise to plunge more Cuban families into poverty.