Father denounces abuse at the Artemisa polyclinic after his son buried a stone

A Cuban father has denounced on social networks the shortage of resources in the Artemisa health system. As he explains, he took his injured son, after burying a pin in his foot, to a polyclinic in the Güira de Melena municipality and there he only found "the bad faces of some officials." He then had no choice but to go to a hospital where the minor's injuries could be treated.

In a post on Facebook, this Cuban father assures that at the health center they could not inject his son, nor do x-rays or an ultrasound on the affected foot "because there is no light and the sole is broken." In cases of emergencies like this, the affected father simply asked himself "how long this damn dictatorship is going to continue playing with us."

This situation also led him to question how it is possible that there are still people in Cuba who support the regime's management. The few comments that the complaint has all go in the same direction.

"They treat us like animals. They step on us like the ground. They take away our water, the current, our right to speak and they say that they are not dictators," comments an Internet user who introduces himself as Aziel Rivera.

This complaint about poor care at a polyclinic in Artemisa is not an isolated complaint. More and more users of the Cuban public health system are showing on social networks their disagreement with the state of health care in Cuba, which has gone from being one of the flags of the regime to becoming its Achilles heel, especially after of the coronavirus pandemic, which exposed the shortcomings of the Cuban health system.

At the end of November images circulatedof the deplorable state of the bathrooms at the Mario Muñoz Monroy pediatric hospital, in Colón, in Matanzas. There, unhealthiness was the least important thing because they lacked an ambulance and, in addition, the poor quality of the patients' food was also questioned.

What is repeated most on social networks are complaints about the lack of cleaning in the island's hospitals. He did it in October 2023,a pregnant woman who at that time was admitted to the Vladimir Ilich Lenin hospital in Holguín. She complained about the state of the bathrooms, even though the center had received a visit from Miguel Díaz-Canel a few days before.

The photos he posted on social media showed completely unsanitary toilets and sinks. A fact that is repeated in other centers in the country, such as the pediatric hospital in Camagüey.

In April of last year another Cuban, also pregnant, She exploded against the poor care received at the National Hospital, where she was admitted to a room with patients with pneumonia. She came in with a fever and despite her delicate condition (she was expecting twins) she had to carry buckets of water to bathe.

According to his testimony, water entered the hospital once a day, there was no refrigerator to store food and no thermometer to control fever.

The Island's health system has been gradually deteriorating due to lack of investment and maintenance. In the first half of 2023, the Cuban regime once again allocated four times more to hotels and restaurants (despite the drop in tourist arrivals) than to public health and social assistance, according to data released by the National Statistics Office itself. and Information.

It was not a specific action, but rather the confirmation of a trend that the regime had already been doing since 2022. Economists like Pedro Monreal have criticized this situation because they understand that prioritizing investment in tourism, above essential public services, has, in the long run, "a significant political cost."