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Cuban with visual disabilities asks comedian Limay Blanco for help to get medicine

Havana native Jorge Rodríguez needs medication to avoid going completely blind, and comedian Limay Blanco has shared his concern through social networks.

Humorista Limay Blanco. Foto de referencia. © Facebook / Limayblanco Humorista
Comedian Limay Blanco. Reference photo. Photo © Facebook / Limayblanco Comedian

Comedian Limay Blanco Once again he expressed solidarity with the suffering of the people in Cuba and published a petition from a visually impaired person who urgently needs medication so as not to become completely blind.

Jorge Rodríguez, 63 years old and resident of the 10 de Octubre municipality, in Havana, contacted the comedian via email, explaining the urgency of getting a medication called timolol to prevent the total loss of vision in his only functional eye, Blanco published in Facebook.

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“In 2020, due to the shortage of medications and the lack of access to dorzolamide with timolol, I almost completely lost vision in the only eye I have left,” explained the man, who denounced that the situation affects people with glaucoma, as we cannot control eye pressure.

Both drugs are used to treat glaucoma, a condition that affects intraocular pressure in the eye.

In the middle of a drug shortage which significantly affects older people, Rodríguez regretted lacking the drug again: “I wonder if, through your humanitarian management and with the help of God, it would be possible to obtain dorzolamide with timolol or, failing that, just timolol , since I have access to dorzolamide on the other hand,” Rodríguez stressed.

“My concern is deep, since I depend on a cane to get around and this situation makes my daily life extremely difficult,” said the very distressed man who for years has fought against glaucoma and the government's inability to guarantee the medications he requires.

The unfortunate panorama of shortages seems to have no end. The Cuban ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel, last March, confirmed that understocked pharmacies will continue and the lack of dozens of products from the basic medication table.

"Given the lack of supplies and medicines, the best response we can give to our population in such difficult times is the quality of services, with shortages, we are going to have them, we are going to continue with a lack of medicines," he stated in a meeting with Health sector officials.

One of the desperate alternatives that the regime has implemented is to extend, until next June 30, the non-commercial import, free of tariffs, of food, toiletries, medicines and medical supplies, without limits on their value.

The long-awaited measure was announced at one of the most crucial and tense moments in the country, where the economic crisis, social and political, due to the growing food shortage, inflation and the increase in blackouts, which have increased the hardships of citizens.

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