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Cuban mother asks for help for her child with nose cancer: "They say there are no resources"

The family is desperate. They have been in a hospital in Havana for more than a month and have no way to support these expenses.


ACuban mother asked for help for hischild sick with nose cancer He has been admitted to a hospital in the capital for more than a month without the resources for surgical intervention appearing.

"In September he started with what seemed to be a sinusitis. He couldn't even go to school. They sent us to the hospital in Holguín where they operated on him for a polyp, but they found thetumor deep in the nose. We were there for three months waiting for an ambulance that would bring him to Havana," said the mother.

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The child was admitted to theWilliam Soler Pediatric Hospital, where he has been for a month and a half and the doctors still have not decided what to do with his case, because they assure the family that "there are no resources."

"My childhas a tumor and here they are looking for the resources for that surgery but no one tells us what type of resources are needed. My husband sleeps on some cardboard on the floor, in the information area of the hospital. We have no way to stay here without work, this is unsustainable," said the grieving woman.

They are experiencing an extreme situation in a city they do not know and where they do not have family or a network of friends to help them support themselves, especially in the current context ofcrisis in Cuba.

"We need help. Really, I have to get the child's surgery and I have almost no way to feed ourselves," said this Cuban mother.

The boy's family is desperate, not only because of the delicate health issue that their son is going through, but because of the extreme lack they are suffering, in a country where inflation is growing and buying food is one of the most expensive things there is. .

From the profile ofMadelin Lores Facebook They offered information about this case. The phone numbers for those who wish to contact the family are: 5049-6240 for the mother and 5453-3203 for the father.

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