Report: Patient in critical condition after falling from a stretcher in Bayamo hospital.

A patient admitted to the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes General Hospital in Bayamo, Granma, is reported to be in critical condition after falling to the floor while being transferred from the CT scanner bed to the stretcher, according to a complaint that emerged this Wednesday.

The unfortunate incident came to light in a post by activist Diasniurka Salcedo on Facebook, where she shared videos showing the patient's family protesting in a hospital hallway. There was no stretcher bearer in the room to carry out the transfer, according to the complaint.

"Right now, at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes University General Hospital in Bayamo, a patient fell from the doctor while being transferred from the CT scan bed to the stretcher, and the patient is in critical condition," Salcedo indicated.

He also pointed out that "the relatives are demanding" and explained that "it all happened because there was no stretcher bearer to assist him."

The images published by the activist show the moment of confusion and indignation of the family members after the incident occurred.

"She was lying on the stretcher, she fell off the stretcher!" exclaimed one of the relatives excitedly, while several people silently watched the scene.

The man claimed that he witnessed the moment when the doctor "moved her and turned the stretcher" and, addressing a woman who said she was the patient's sister, he said that he "wanted to take her out on the bed," but she refused.

In another video, the woman can be heard shouting: "I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him and I won't pay for it, because that's my sister!"

Due to the lack of stretcher bearers, she and the man are the ones who take the patient out of the room in her own bed, apparently to take her to therapy as someone had suggested before.

At that moment, a nurse noticed that someone was recording with a cell phone and, suspecting that the incident would become public, shouted threateningly: “Call the police for me, because no photos are allowed in the hospital,” and the video was cut off immediately.

The incident this Wednesday is another chapter in the extensive history of negligence, deficiencies, malpractice, shortages of medications and supplies, and lack of medical and paramedical personnel that characterize public health services in Cuba, which have been in a dramatic decline for years.

At the beginning of this month, the family of licensed psychologist Yaneidys Barea Gregori, who died from malaria a few days after returning from Angola, reported the failures of the healthcare system and the negligent actions of the medical personnel who treated her. The General Directorate of Health of Las Tunas established a medical commission to investigate and clarify Barea's death.

In the province of Granma, a report emerged regarding a man admitted to the Celia Sánchez Manduley hospital in Manzanillo, who was left unattended and covered in flies, as the medical staff did not attend to his situation since he had no companion.

Meanwhile, in Santiago de Cuba, an alarming infestation of bedbugs has kept patients and healthcare staff at the Gustavo Machín Psychiatric Hospital on edge for months.