Several parents protested this Tuesday about the lack of conditions in one of the wards of the Children's Hospital Sur, known as "La Colonia Española," in the province of Santiago de Cuba.
According to the publication on the social network Facebook by journalist Yosmany Mayeta, the parents came together to protest after they were moved with the children to another space without conditions.
The reason for the change was that the place where they were located is under renovation, but the other location does not have the conditions for the infants, who have respiratory illnesses.
The parents' discontent was significant as they filmed the new location to have evidence, while the center's staff asked them not to record.
"This has no beds or electricity and is filled with water. The dust there will worsen the children's pneumonia," said one of the mothers to the communicator.
The issue is recurring in the mentioned province, as amidst the worsening health situation on the island, residents of the area have reported the terrible conditions and lack of resources at the provincial hospital Saturnino Lora to handle the increasing influx of patients.
A few weeks ago, a Cuban citizen reported the deplorable hygienic conditions at the Mártires del 9 de Abril hospital, located in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara.
Images sent to the CiberCuba newsroom showed an alarming picture of lack of cleanliness and maintenance in the facilities, highlighting the serious health crisis facing the hospital center.
Last Friday, activist Maikel Herrera Bones, who is facing a complicated health situation, reported that he had been waiting for five days for a bed to be transferred from the Manuel Fajardo University Clinical Surgical Hospital to the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine, better known as IPK, in Havana.
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