They ask for help for a Cuban teenager with ichthyosis and skin cancer: "They took away her milk diet"

Cubans on social networks ask for help for aCuban teenager who suffers from ichthyosis and skin cancer and lives in terrible conditions in Birán, in the Cueto municipality, Holguín.

It was the young Mey Santiuste who raised the alarm in the Facebook group "CUBAN MOTHERS FOR A BETTER WORLD", where she shared photos of the sick woman, calledRoxana García Guerrero.

Roxana is 17 years old and lives in the country with her mother and a little brother. Due to his illnessYour skin does not have pores and is very delicate, since it is exposed to catching any bacteria..

"Where she lives is a place where they don't take anything, they took away her milk diet. She is a girl who has to eat and drink a lot of fluids, she can't be exposed to the sun or heat. One dayThey assigned an air conditioner and it never arrived. They don't have drinking water, the water is from a dry river where the animals bathe and the people there drink from that water," described Mey.

Despite being 17 years old, the patient is so thin and small that she looks younger.

Internet user Mey did not ignore the fact that the family lives in Birán, a town whereThe late dictator Fidel Castro was born, and not even because of that there is any development in the place.

"The land of Fidel. There only the girlenjoy a few hours of electric light because they take it away almost all day. That girlcan't enjoy television because they don't have a tv", he denounced.

"It's sad to see a little person like that with that disease and that she is not cared for as she should. I hope that they can do something for that little girl and that her little face can reflect joy, since it is a disease that takes all of her organs and we don't know how much longer does he have left to be in this world," he concluded.

There are many critical cases like this girl's, who are abandoned by the government and need the solidarity of good people willing to help alleviate their situation.

Last Thursday the story of Angeline Zayas, a14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy can't even drink a glass of milk up to date.

The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights denounced the case of the minor, a resident of Manatí, Las Tunas province, who, according to her mother, had been "drinking sugar water for more than a week."

The patient is also a severe quadriplegic and has hearing loss in the right ear. Despite his condition, the regime not only suspended his milk but also took away his regulated bread, because it is now for minors of that age.

At the beginning of March, another mother launched a plea for help toget a portable artificial ventilator for your 16-month-old girl, admitted since November at the pediatric hospital of Pinar del Río.

Marielys Pérez, a resident of a neighborhood 12 km from the Viñales municipality, turned to the solidarity of her compatriots to send her a team to be able to move her little Aithana home.

"My daughter has been hooked since she had tracheostomy and gastrostomy surgery on December 28, and I need it at home," he explained on Facebook.

Marielys, mother of a four-year-old boy, shared a photo of the artificial ventilator, which can be purchased in the United States and costs $260.99.