A Cuban girl with cancer urgently needs donations of type A+ blood while she remains hospitalized in the oncology ward of the Holguín Pediatric Hospital.
The request for assistance was shared by the user Idelisa Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia on the social network Facebook: “Emili Elianis Remón Silot is a little girl who is fighting against cancer, she is undergoing chemotherapy and about three days ago she started having an eye hemorrhage due to the deterioration of her body,” she wrote.
He stated that they need to extract platelets for the little girl and there is not enough blood in the mentioned health center, hence the urgency and because "treatment has begun but her platelets and leukocytes are unstable and drop frequently."
Salcedo emphasized that "the day before yesterday they donated and the blood was lost, that's why the girl is still very ill and now more is needed."
On the delicate topic, she added, "many people responded to the (previous) call for help, and unfortunately none of those blood transfusions went to the intended recipient, who was Emili."
This Thursday it was reported that Arlety Llerena Martínez, a 33-year-old Cuban mother living in Guanabacoa (Havana), is requesting that her appointment for the interview be expedited so she can emigrate as soon as possible to the United States with her son, Jorge Esteban Reina Llerena, who is suffering from cancer.
Llerena tries to reunite the child with his father, who has been living in that country for almost four years and has not been able to travel to Cuba during this time, but keeps in touch with him through video calls.
During this week, a desperate call was also made to the Cuban community in the United States, seeking support to continue the chemotherapy treatment of Kiryat Poey, a 17-year-old adolescent suffering from the illness.
The young man suffers from a serious medical condition; he needs to receive chemotherapy every 21 days, but the necessary medication is not available at the William Soler Pediatric Hospital, where he is hospitalized.
In April of this year, it was reported that a new case of cancer is diagnosed every 20 minutes in Cuba, while 146 people die daily from this disease, stated Elías Antonio Gracia Medina, head of the National Group of Medical Oncology.
The physician stated that this figure indicates a critical and concerning problem for the Cuban health system, while acknowledging that programs such as breast cancer prevention have had to be suspended.
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