A multidisciplinary team from the Abel Santamaría Cuadrado Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital, in Pinar del Río, managed to save the life of a 28-year-old pregnant woman in recent days who, at 32.2 weeks of gestation, had to face severe complications in her pregnancy.
The young woman - identified as Yarileidy Barrera García - presented significant kidney and liver conditions that compromised her life, as revealed by a reportage from the National Television News.
"There was a suspicion of ovular asepsis because she came with fever and with some clinical conditions related to the amniotic fluid and the placenta that made us suspect ovular sepsis," said Dr. Ernesto Rodríguez Quiñones, head of Intensive Care Services of the hospital.
The specialist stressed that she was assessed in the delivery room and the decision was to admit her to intensive care due to the conditions her body had with severe liver failure, kidney failure, low blood pressure and other parameters that required permanent monitoring and observation.
The source did not specify how long the young woman remained hospitalized nor whether the birth was finally natural or by cesarean section.
The good news is that both mother and baby are progressing satisfactorily.
"Very happy to come back to life, because I was dead and I am very happy because the doctors helped me a lot and saved my life," the young woman declared to the aforementioned media.
In the midst of recurring criticism of the poor quality of public health in Cuba, mainly due to the insufficiency of health resources and the flight of doctors, which has led to systematic complaints of medical negligence, in recent months official media outlets in Cuba periodically bring to light cases in which multidisciplinary teams manage to save patients' lives suffering from serious illnesses.
Unfortunately, In the specific case of Pinar del Río there is a history of a pregnant woman with a radically opposite ending.
In October of last year the case of Aniuvis de la Caridad Delgado Acosta came to light, died on September 28 at the Abel Santamaría provincial hospital due to complications arising from the birth of her child. She had had a cesarean section on the 18th.
In that case, the young woman died presumably from generalized sepsis due to not receiving the required care., as reported at that time.
Activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia then explained that the woman “had suffered eclampsia and was discharged without realizing that she had an infection that was later impossible to control.” She went to the hospital several times because she felt bad and they always took her home.
At the beginning of 2024, Cuban feminist platforms decided to include in the final review of the under-recording of femicidal violence in Cuba in 2023 the death of Aniuvis de la Caridad Delgado Acosta as a case of gynecobstetric femicide.
Fortunately, five months after that tragic outcome, the complications in the pregnancy of the young woman from Pinar del Río Yarileidy Barrera García have had a happy ending.
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