This is the Cienfuegos hospital: “Converted into a pigsty”

The General University Hospital Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima, in Cienfuegos, is “converted into a pigsty.” This was reported by a Cuban sharing images of the unhygienic and unhealthy conditions of his facilities.

“This is not a landfill, but rather images of the same room where dengue patients are at the Cienfuegos Hospital, with cockroaches included to liven up the horror,” said the administrator of the group. Facebook 'Mills'.

In his publication, the activist Yamil Cuellar He stressed that the decline of the hospital center goes back a long time, and that even the institution's own doctors recommend that patients' families transfer them to other institutions for their own good.

“This place stopped being a hospital a long time ago and became a pigsty. It is no secret that the most responsible doctors recommend that families take their patients home, with the aim of avoiding greater evils, because you enter with one thing and leave with another,” said Cuéllar.

Photographs shared in his publication revealed the state of dirt and deterioration of the hospital facilities.

Destroyed doors, filthy bathrooms, old and rusty furniture, garbage piled up in piles, the admission room for dengue patients at the Cienfuegos Hospital is a scandal for the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of the Cuban regime, which directs José Ángel Portal Miranda.

The collapse of public health services has been a fact for decades in Cuba, but it was not until the emergence of mobile phone data and social networks that complaints of this reality began to gain visibility and notoriety in public opinion in Cuba. the Cubans. The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this situation and He left the “king” of Castroist propaganda naked.

“Cuban medical power: that is the result of communism,” said a user in the comments to Cuéllar's publication. “My God, in a hospital like this you have to die from something!” exclaimed another.

“I believe it because I have lived it... That provincial hospital is disgusting... They only take visitors to the lobby, where they take everyone who visits the hospital: to the best rooms chosen in advance. In the other rooms, they don't even look out there... It's all a farce,” confirmed an Internet user. “That is not a setup paid for by the enemy; That hospital is the same: stuffy bathrooms… disgusting,” he added.

“My family just experienced that horror with cockroaches and everything! “Excellent exhibition,” said one user. “All that is very true. The medical staff is very special and competent, but hygiene is chaos in all aspects,” another noted.

Last August, the activist Raul Gonzalez reported that There were no medications to relieve pain at the Cienfuegos Hospital, where he remained hospitalized for a heart condition. “They are slowly murdering me, the dictatorship is murdering me here. I'm not leaving this, from here it's to the cemetery," he denounced.

In February 2023, María De los Ángeles Pérez González He recounted on social media everything his mother suffered in said hospital, after she was diagnosed with an acute kidney infection. According to the daughter, The old woman died due to a lack of antibiotics to continue your treatment.

In May 2022, the news broke that the hospital management had arranged the clogging of the bathrooms in the Respiratory Care room (12A) after a complaint was published on Facebook.

"Administrative staff offer the answer that this is an 'unsolvable' problem. I wonder if it is the patients or their families who have to solve it or will we have to wait for a high-level visit to be directed to this room?" he wrote. the complainant.

In August 2021, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Cubans They denounced the collapse of the Cienfuegos Hospital. "The communist regime could not give a good quality of life to Cubans in 61 years of dictatorship without a pandemic... It will not do so now with one of the worst pandemics in history," said a Cuban scandalized by the failure of the health system. public of Cuba.