A man collapsed this Sunday in front of a house in the Las Cruces neighborhood in Altamira, Santiago de Cuba, apparently due to a hypoglycemic crisis caused by hunger and lack of food intake.
The journalist Yosmany Mayeta shared on Facebook the testimony of a neighbor, who recounted that the residents of the area had to quickly help the fainted man by offering him sugary water and bread to stabilize him.
"The man seemed to have suffered from hypoglycemia; he said he was hungry," reported the person in a message directed to the communicator.
This fact reflects the harsh living conditions that many people in Cuba face, especially the elderly, where food shortages and the economic crisis severely affect the population.
In March, an elderly man suffered a hypoglycemic episode while waiting in line at a bank in Santiago de Cuba, standing in the sun, poorly nourished and sick, with no seat available despite his advanced age.
The 90-year-old man was identified as Eleutelio Simón Bueno, who collapsed during the exhausting wait to collect his pension at the "La Comercial" bank, located near the Roundabout of José Martí District in Santiago de Cuba.
In April, a young man fainted from hunger on a street in Santiago de Cuba and was able to recover thanks to the solidarity of the people who happened to pass by and gave him food.
The video of the sad event was shared on Facebook by independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who noted that fainting from hunger in the city does not discriminate by age.
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