Thousands of Cubans have rebutted the statements of Susana Sottoli, a UN representative who claimed that Cuba "continues to be a leader in health issues."
Sottoli, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), visited Havana on Tuesday, where she was received by Miguel Díaz-Canel.
"Despite the challenges, Cuba remains a leader in reproductive health and population issues, and it gives us great pleasure and is always an honor to have Cuba accompanying us...", the executive expressed.
For Cubans, who have spent years witnessing how the healthcare system has gradually degraded to the point of collapse, with no medicines or supplies and hospitals falling apart, the statements of the foreign official are, at the very least, "a lack of respect."
"Which Cuba was this lady talking about? We all know that the hospitals don't have medication, they're infested with vermin due to the lack of cleaning supplies, there are no CT scans available, there are no analysis reagents, and let's not even talk about the polyclinics. It is truly a disrespect and a mockery to the people..." noted a teacher.
"That gives you the measure that the UN and all those organizations are a lie," expressed a woman from Havana.
"That lady is just laughing at all the Cubans," said a woman from Villa Clara.
"Let her go to Cuba, but to truly visit the hospitals, not Cira García! How shameless this lady is, speaking without knowing, when in Cuba there are sometimes not even water in the hospitals," recalled a woman from Havana.
"Without a doubt, a leader! In disaster, abandonment, mess, negligence, lack of respect, indifference," detailed a young person.
"Let her come to Sagua la Grande so she can see the wonderful hospital, but let her come with a raincoat, poor thing, so she doesn't get wet and catch a cold or a bacteria," an internet user joked.
"There is nothing, but if she says she wants to visit any of those hospitals in less than 24 hours, they have everything, they even fix and paint it, how shameless they all are. (...) The visitors leave with the impression that everything is perfect," remembered a resident of Havana.
"Come to Santa Marta and Varadero to see the disgrace, the bathrooms are disgusting, the service is terrible when you get there because there are almost never any doctors, nothing works, when the doctors attend to you they are thinking about what they are going to eat, and that's how it is day to day," said a resident of Matanzas.
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