A young father of a four-year-old child died in Santiago de Cuba as a result of alleged medical negligence at Ambrosio Grillo hospital.
"Something came out of his nose that turned into cellulitis. It seems like it spread and he caught a bacteria. They took him to the doctor because he was in a lot of pain, and you know how medical care is in Cuba, they didn't give him the medication he needed. They were just monitoring him with pills, and it wasn't what he was supposed to take," a family member recounted in an audio to journalist Yosmany Mayeta.
"They said there were no medications, and then when it got worse, they said the medication was actually there, and what really happened is that due to the doctors' negligence, that's why he died, because they were giving him the wrong medication," the source added.
The victim, 34 years old and identified as Yasser Sánchez, lived in the Los Pinos neighborhood, where his neighbors have been dismayed by his death.
Yosmany Mayeta challenged the Santiago authorities to enter Ambrosio Grillo Hospital and find out what is happening there because this is not the first case reported in recent weeks under suspicion of medical negligence.
The Ambrosio Grillo Hospital in Santiago de Cuba has reported the death of young people for several weeks, and family members have alleged that it is allegedly 'medical negligence,' said the communicator.
"They cannot hide medications, medical supplies, and any medical assistance tools and allow young people from Santiago to die from curable diseases," he added.
The journalist urged the authorities to urgently enter that hospital and put an end once and for all to "the massacre they are committing."
Mayeta Labrada added that this should be a unanimous call echoed by all the relatives of those who died due to alleged medical negligence at that hospital.
At the end of May, a young Cuban man of just 19 years old died after peritonitis was diagnosed as dengue, as reported by his family in statements to the same journalist.
In that case, the young man who passed away, named Vladimir Hechabarría, was laid out at his home, where he was bid farewell by dozens of people who accompanied his coffin to the cemetery.
In recent years, reports of medical negligence in Cuba have surged - many of them with tragic outcomes - amidst a context of severe shortage of supplies and a constant exodus of healthcare professionals, both abroad and towards more profitable branches within the country.
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