A young Cuban mother residing in Holguín reported that her son, only 20 days old, died as a result of medical negligence in a hospital in that province.
Arlety González, from the Negrito neighborhood in the Holguin municipality of Antilla, told the independent media CubaNet that it all started on January 24, when her baby fell ill and after a fatal outcome, they told her to "get used to the idea that he didn't exist. That he had never existed."
He explains that at 6:00 am that day, he took his son to the hospital, and upon arrival, a nurse took him away and he didn't hear anything about him until 12 hours later, when he saw an ambulance arrive.
"I just saw the doctors going in and out, and none of them said anything to me," the woman said.
González narrated that, during the transfer, the baby suffered an adverse reaction to the antibiotic rosefin, which caused a cardiac arrest and seizures.
"The nurse who was in the ambulance didn't want to let me ride with her because she said I couldn't go. But well, I insisted there with her and got in the ambulance," she recalled.
Upon arriving at the hospital in the provincial capital, they asked him to sit and wait, without giving him any information about his son's condition. The post does not clarify what the child's underlying illness was.
Finally, they told the mother that if she wanted to see him alive, she had to go to the room.
"He was like that for three days. The rosefin caused an adverse reaction and he caught a bacteria," they explained to González.
On January 26, after suffering multiple cardiac arrests, the baby passed away, the note specifies.
Then came agonizing and humiliating hours for the family. The mother recounts that her son died at 3:20 am and that by noon he was still in the room because there was no stretcher bearer available to take him to the morgue.
Amid her pain, González carried her little one and took him herself to the morgue. However, she faced more obstacles when trying to hold a vigil for her son at home, the note specifies.
"As I was a baby and didn’t have identification, the doctor told me to get the idea that he didn’t exist. That he had never existed," she recounted indignantly.
Finally, the authorities tried to prevent her from taking her son's body home to mourn, even going so far as to involve the red berets to take the body from her, which she prevented.
"I stayed there and told them that they had to give me my baby because that was my baby. Because even though he was dead, he was my child. He was 20 days old," she emphasized.
More and more Cubans are losing family members and reporting irregularities or medical negligence that cost lives in Cuba.
From the Cuban Free Medical Guild, its president, Miguel Ángel Ruano, attributes this to the fact that good doctors are on missions abroad, leaving newly graduated practitioners on the Island who have difficulty diagnosing due to their limited experience.
Two weeks ago, a 3-year-old girl was admitted to a hospital due to vomiting and headaches.
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