The Cuban baby Lian Coronado Babastro, only seven months old, underwent emergency surgery this Tuesday at the La Colonia children's hospital in Santiago de Cuba, after receiving several injections of dipyrone, which caused an abscess in one of his buttocks. The infection, caused by alleged malpractice, nearly cost him his life.
The child was admitted with a fever to the pediatric ward of Palma Soriano Juan Vitalio Acuña on Monday, September 2, after receiving the six-month vaccine, but at the hospital, the doctors said he had a viral process and to reduce the fever, they administered several injections of dipyrone, all in the same buttock. As the infant did not improve, they conducted tests and always told the family that everything was within the correct parameters, as explained to CiberCuba by Lixander Babastro, the child's uncle, who resides in the United States.
Days passed, and the child's condition worsened, until Saturday, September 7, when a relative of the child's mother noticed that the baby had one leg and his testicles swollen, along with a lesion on his little bottom where all the injections had been administered. Immediately, the mother spoke with the doctors to request an ambulance to transfer the infant to La Colonia children's hospital in Santiago de Cuba. The child cried constantly and would not let anyone touch him. But the ambulance never arrived. From the United States, Lian Coronado's uncle began sending letters to the Municipal Directorate of Public Health in Palma Soriano and to any public organizations he could find online, but the problem not only remained unresolved, but the child's family was declared "non grata" and was not allowed to access the hospital anymore, not even to bring food to the mother.
Even a municipal Health official named Dailyn went so far as to tell the baby's mother that this child's case was neither the most serious nor a priority for transfer to Santiago de Cuba. As a result, the child arrived at La Colonia in extremely critical condition and was admitted directly to intensive care on Sunday. His hemoglobin was at 6, despite tests carried out in Palma Soriano showing everything within normal ranges. Two days later, the child underwent surgery, and all the pus accumulated in his bottom, where he received all the dipyrone injections that nearly cost him his life, was removed.
"The life of a baby who is just starting to live has been at stake, and due to medical procedures, his health has deteriorated," complains the child's uncle to CiberCuba from the United States. He also asserts that the family has asked for explanations from the directors of the Palma Soriano hospital, who not only verbally mistreated them but also declared them 'unwelcome.'
"I need answers and an investigation into what happened. The municipal director of Public Health said that everything was ready to transfer the child by ambulance to Santiago de Cuba on Saturday, and it was a lie. The child had to receive an urgent blood transfusion upon arriving at La Colonia and had to undergo emergency surgery. Dailyn deceived my family. Someone has to be sanctioned for taking so long to diagnose what was wrong with the child and for the transfer to Santiago. I need answers and for whoever needs to be removed to be removed so that justice is served for the health of a seven-month-old child. They have played with the health of an infant and mistreated my family," concludes Lixander Babastro in statements to CiberCuba, but also in letters sent to the Council of State, the Ministry of Public Health, and Unicef, among other national and international public organizations.
CiberCuba contacted the Municipal Health Directorate of Palma Soriano, but at the time of publishing this news, it had not provided its version of events.
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