In a moving message, the Cuban girl Sofia Mercedes Muñoz Rivero, only six years old, begged for help to travel to the United States, where the acute myeloid leukemia that threatens his life.
“Hello, my name is Sofi. I want to go to the United States because I am sick.", the little girl begins by saying in a video that her parents published on social networks and has been shared by hundreds of users.
“I want to know if you can help me because my mom and dad are going to take me there so I can get well. A kiss for everyone,” Sofía expressed in her emotional request, and a smile illuminated her face, denoting the hope that her dream of being cured would come true.
The girl, who resides with her family in Matanzas, urgently needs a bone marrow transplant, a treatment that is not provided by Cuba's public health system.
“Here there are no resources to do it, here everything is very scarce, there is nothing,” said his mother. Luli Rivero a Telemundo51. “We are strongly asking you to help us, so we can get Sofi out of the country with a humanitarian visa to have her bone marrow transplant.”
Sofía's parents are hoping to find a sponsor in USA that can support them financially and process a humanitarian parole that would enable them to enter the country, where their daughter would have the opportunity to access the medical care she needs to save her life.
“The family's hope lies in the Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, where doctors are ready to provide Sofía with the treatment and subsequent bone marrow transplant that could save her life,” the television channel's report stated.
Dr. Guillermo de Angulo, pediatric oncologist at that hospital, explained that, although the disease that Sofía suffers from is aggressive, there is a possibility of cure if action is taken promptly.
When consulted by the television station, immigration lawyer Gladys Carredeguas alluded to a “special category for cases like Sofía's, which require urgent medical treatment in the United States, and that the process could be expedited.”
Last September, the case of little Sofía became public after an urgent call from the activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia requesting donations of type B+ blood for platelets, a crucial need in the treatment to combat this type of hematological cancer that interferes with the normal production of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
Weeks before, Sofía had started to have a bad cold and a persistent fever and, after being taken to the doctor, her family was devastated with the diagnosis of the serious illness that afflicts her.
Since then, his mother, a nurse by profession, and his father have faced a Via Crucis before the lack of resources in the Cuban health system to treat the life-threatening illness of her only daughter, who was conceived through insemination.
Their hope is now focused on finding someone who can help them get to the United States as soon as possible and achieve the miracle of healing Sofía.
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