China donates wells and thermoses to healthcare centers in Las Tunas

In the midst of the serious widespread crisis on the island, China donated water bottles, thermoses and other containers to 116 assistance centers in Las Tunas that offer food to 3,500 people daily.

The place Newspaper 26 reported that the 116 units of the Family Care System (SAF) in the eight municipalities of that province received modules with utensils for cooking and storing food.

The aid "includes isothermal and plastic buckets, saucepans, jugs, plates, soup bowls and other supplies that seek to improve the quality in the provision of the service," reported Roger Luis Nieves Fournier, specialist in Communication and Marketing of the Business Group of Commerce in the province, the newspaper cited.

Nieves Fournier said that the utensils are durable because some equipment such as isothermal buckets are made of stainless steel and nickel-plated.

The donation also included wells for the 3,500 assisted people – elderly, disabled and other people in extreme poverty or who do not have close relatives – who daily look for food in these SAF centers.

China has been donating these items to the SAF in several Cuban provinces, amid the serious shortages and precariousness that affects both those assisted and the government institutions that barely serve them.

Last April, a similar donation benefited the healthcare centers of Bauta, Sancti Spíritus and Santa Cruz del Sur.

In 2021, after the approval of the so-called Ordering Task of the Cuban regime, the prices of the menu that the Cuban government provides to the elderly and needy people in the country Through the SAF, they rose from the maximum cost of 1 Cuban peso to 13 pesos.

In that year, 77,661 people were registered to join the SAF. Of them, 36,298 retirees, 6,251 with disabilities and 12,773 for social assistance.

Although the regime defended that the elderly could pay the new price with their checkbook, several images of the menu that were published on social networks outraged Cubans, since it only contained rice, peas and sweet potatoes, without any meat.

"This is worth pennies. We demand that they change the price of this food. The elderly do not deserve this food equivalent to that of a prison and for such an abusive price," said an Internet user on Facebook.

In March of that same year, the regime recognized the "critical conditions of the so-called units of the Family Care System (SAF) in the capital", a situation caused, it said, by "the lack of public service vocation in the administrators." and the diversion of resources".