Cuban boy dies with brain tumor while waiting for a humanitarian visa

AndCuban teenager who had a brain tumor and was waiting for a humanitarian visa to be treated outside the country, died on Sunday.

The news was announced by her aunt, Ailencita Peña, in a publication inFacebook.

"I wanted to tell you so many things that I thought I would always have time to do it, but it wasn't like that. You went on a journey with no return and now it's too late for me. (...) Time never stops, He stopped for you, but for me he keeps running. They say he is wise and that he heals wounds, but I say that he doesn't heal them, that he only makes them up, covers them up and they never stop hurting... they always hurt," he wrote.

The deceased young man, namedAlejandro Ruiz Espinosa, was admitted to the Camagüey cancer hospital for almost a year, where he underwent several unsuccessful surgeries.

In December, upon seeing her deteriorating health, AilencitaHe urgently requested a humanitarian visa or transfer to a hospital with better conditions. in Cuba.

"His primary condition is a tumor rooted in the brain stem, astrocytoma, those who know call it astrocytoma. We have lost count of the number of times he has been operated on. 'This time yes,' the doctors said, but there is always a failure, there is always something that is wrong. Meningo, thrombosis, bacteria, fungi, anemia, gastritis and now muscle atrophy that causes a lot of pain...", he described.

According to the woman's story on that occasion, a week after the last operation to insert a catheter into the minor's bile duct, the doctors said that everything was fine, until the patient's mother realized the symptoms he was presenting, and they had to urgently take him to the salon to operate again.

"In the x-ray and ultrasound, no one noticed. If his mother had not noticed today, we would not know what would have happened. What is happening that every time everything is done, everything is wrong? Why can't inflammation be detected? through a medical examination with the required instruments?" the aunt then questioned.

Alejandro He began to suffer from a grade 1 astrocytoma in the brain stem at the age of 10., a benign tumor that produces large amounts of fluid in the cranial cavity, and if not removed correctly can have serious consequences.

Last March, when he was 15 years old, his family asked for help on social networks to get a catheter that was not in stock at the Camagüey hospital.

"That inhelp find a catheter for hydrocephalus to the peritoneum. It is very urgent for us. we pay it at any price," her aunt then pleaded.