Cuban father requests humanitarian visa to save his son's life in Miami.

A Cuban father residing in Miami pleads for his three-year-old son, diagnosed with leukemia, to be granted a humanitarian visa to travel to the United States and receive the medical treatment necessary to save his life.

Leandro Acosta watches with desperation as the days go by, while he clings to the hope of obtaining a humanitarian visa so that little Ronaldo can move to Miami and access the specialized care he has not received in Cuba due to the critical situation of the healthcare system.

Ronaldo was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago, and since then, his family has been going through a difficult ordeal due to the lack of medications and medical supplies in Cuba.

"My child debuted with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2022 and there was nothing there," Acosta told Telemundo51 in an interview. "Everything the child uses and needs has to be sent from here because there is nothing there."

During these two years, the treatment of the child in Cuba has been largely guaranteed by supportive friends, who send medicines and other necessary resources, such as disposable gloves, from Miami.

But the father did not stand idly by and took a decisive step with the intention of saving his son's life. A year and a half ago, Acosta left his wife and two children in Cuba, and embarked on the journey towards the United States crossing borders.

"It was very difficult because, even if you had the money in Cuba, you couldn't get things because they weren't available," Acosta stated.

Currently, he is working in Miami, with the purpose of providing treatment to combat the hematologic cancer that threatens the life of his child and to be able to reunite with his family in the United States.

"My greatest fear is not being able to get things for them. I work so that they don't lack anything at all, but everything in that country is complex," he expressed.

However, he was categorical about his determination to obtain a humanitarian visa that would allow his family to leave Cuba.

"The only thing I need is to get them out of there. The biggest dream is for my child to be healthy and to have them here," she confessed. "Every day I dream of the arrival of my children, every day, there is not a day that I do not dream of them."

The dream of embracing his family and being able to ensure that Ronaldo receives medical treatment gives strength to this father to keep working and looking for alternatives to make his wishes come true.

Like Acosta, many Cuban parents have found themselves in need of urgent help to obtain a humanitarian visa, especially in recent years, due to the lack of medications and resources in Cuban hospitals to treat their children, who require specialized medical procedures.

Many of these cases require bone marrow or organ transplants, which the healthcare system in Cuba does not guarantee.