The Cuban doctor Yaneidys Barea Gregori passed away due to malaria, just a few days after returning from a medical mission in Angola, in another case that has sparked a wave of criticism and questioning about the efficiency and state of the health system on the island.
At just 40 years old and after spending 18 months in the African nation, Barea died on July 4th in the province of Las Tunas, and friends and family are calling for justice as they believe that protocols failed and the illness could have been treated early and effectively.
In an extensive post on the social network Facebook, Juli Elena Jareno provided details about the case and made it clear that the alleged free healthcare defended by the communist regime makes no sense when it takes the lives of innocent people.
Jareno expressed that the lack of medical equipment, deficient materials, precarious conditions of the facilities, and above all, the lack of interest and professionalism, have shown that the free healthcare in Cuba comes at a very high cost.
Also, he mentioned that despite receiving medical attention, the diagnosis and treatment were delayed due to the late delivery and analysis of essential blood tests.
Yaneidys received medical attention, but it was already too late. Health protocols for treating malaria emphasize the importance of conducting urgent blood tests to identify the type of plasmodium and apply the appropriate treatment. Without these timely analyses, the disease progressed and eventually took her life, amid the complete silence of the official press.
This tragic event," he continued, "has left a mother without consolation, a sister with a broken heart, and an incomplete family. The blame for this loss has not been attributed to anyone in particular, and instead, justifications ranging from the blockade to 'imperialist fabrications' have been put forward.
And, by way of conclusion, he declared: The reality is that the public healthcare system in Cuba has shown serious deficiencies in its management and professionalism.
Among the comments on the publication, internet user Somalí Gregori, the deceased's aunt, also criticized the handling of the case: "I no longer believe in this Revolution, there are no doctors left, they have all gone," reads one of her phrases.
The death of Yaneidys Barea Gregori becomes a new urgent call to improve the management and operation of the healthcare system in Cuba, as the communist government turns a deaf ear and continues to send doctors to fulfill missions in various countries around the world.
Precisely, in the past month of February, the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí (IPK) in Havana confirmed the diagnosis of an imported case of malaria in a Cuban who arrived from a country in Africa at the end of December, although it wasn't until January 26 that health authorities confirmed the case.
It was a non-compliant health patient who arrived in the municipality of Jatibonico, in Sancti Spiritus, on December 24th, also from Angola, as stated by Dr. Carlos Ruiz Santos, director of the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Microbiology of that province, in statements to the Escambray digital website from the official media.
Just over a month after that first diagnosis, health authorities confirmed a new case in Guantánamo, breaking decades of absence of this disease on the island.
The epidemiologist and Deputy Director of Epidemiology at the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Microbiology in that province in the eastern end of the country, Leonel Heredia Carpintrú, clarified that it was an imported case, and that local transmission was not present in the territory, as reported by the official newspaper Venceremos.
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