The Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz continues to recover after leaving the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Madrid clinic where she was subjected to a Liver transplant, and can now be fed by its parents.
The news has excited the hundreds of Cubans who have followed her case since the mother, Mila Ortiz, denounced that her daughter had no chance of surviving in Cuba because she required a procedure that is not being performed on the island.
A video posted on Instagram by activist Yamilka Lafita (Lara Crofs) shows the girl's father, Emmanuel Lemus, feeding her, "with all the love and satisfaction of this stepfather who put his own life at risk, so that today they could be sharing this moment," the publication notes.
On Monday Amanda received permission to transfer to a recovery room in the Spanish hospital where the transplant was performed in March, for which Emmanuel Lemus was a donor.
"The baby is finally in the ward. The doctors considered that she could leave the ICU because of how she has continued to evolve. The ascites is 1.9; the hemoglobin is 10. Everything improved a lot in the previous week," he said in Facebook the activist.
On Saturday, Amanda's friends and family had a gift of hope when they saw the girl smile again and now she appears energetic and willing to take oral feeding.
The little girl's health has been improving for several days, after overcoming the fourth visit to the operating room to control bleeding she had the week before.
The doctors have alerted the family that this process is very delicate, since after the transplant there could be some relapses and Amanda has been overcoming them little by little.
The stay of the little girl and her parents in Spain will take an indefinite time. Amanda's family and friends reactivated the fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to financially help the girl's mother and father, who must support themselves in a foreign country without having a job.
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