Cuban has been waiting for an ambulance for two days in a Havana hospital

A Cuban admitted to the 26 Clinic in Havana hasmore than two days waiting for an ambulance to transfer him to another medical center to have a CT scan, according to sources close to the patient.

The patient, identified asGilberto Ochoa, asked friends to spread his situation on social networks, worried that his health condition could worsen.

“Gilberto Ochoa has been waiting for an ambulance for 2 days and there is none... this is how ordinary Cubans live...!!!”, wrote the userJorge Miguel Trujillo Curiel on Facebook.

In the images, Ochoa appears with a probe inserted into his chest, in a bed at the Joaquín Albarrán Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital (official name of the health center).

The videos show the moment in which they apparently treat his wound, but the reasons why he is hospitalized are not explained. In the photos you can see the precarious condition and thelack of hygiene in the room where is it located.

In otherFacebook post, activist Ernesto Sánchez explained that Ochoa has been waiting for two days for an ambulance to take him to have a CAT scan, the acronym for computerized axial tomography, an exam that allows diagnosing a disease by obtaining images with X-rays. .

In the comments to the publications, people expressed their concern about theserious Public Health crisis in Cuba, Due to thelack of supplies, medications, ambulances and ideal conditions in medical centers to serve the population, problems that have worsened in recent years and that the government has been unable to solve.

Frequently, on social networks,Cubans denounce the lack of ambulances to transfer people in delicate health who urgently need medical attention to hospitals. In many cases,The ambulance has not arrived and the sick have died, without even having received professional assistance.

In the middle of last year, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) revealed thatIt only had 39.6% of the ambulances necessary to attend to medical emergencies..

Three months ago, the government announced thepurchase of a batch of 99 ambulances for a value of four million dollars, aimed at strengthening medical emergency services in all provinces of the country. The news came amid growing demands for improvement in the provision of health services in Cuba.