Communist surrealism in Holguín hospital: Head of Neonatology receives used car in official event.

The Cuban government continues to show its "appreciation" for public health professionals, presenting a used car last Saturday to the head of Neonatology at the Lenin Hospital in Holguín in recognition of her work and years of dedication to the sector.

According to the Facebook profile of Hospital Lenin, the "small recognition" was made on behalf of the people of Cuba, highlighting the contribution of Dr. Ana Nastia Tamayo Ortiz "to public health, for the benefit of the lives of so many children and for the happiness of families in the province of Holguín."

The event had the solemnity characteristic of governmental presentations, in the presence of family members and colleagues of the "honoree," officials from the health center, and even included the reading of statements, yet it remained a reflection of the surrealism that characterizes the communist system and also of its shortcomings.

With this "gesture" of giving a used car to a professional with years of experience, the regime attempts to hide the deep flaws of the Cuban public health system, without addressing the fundamental problems affecting the hospital, such as the lack of supplies and the deterioration of the infrastructure.

In numerous countries, a female specialist doctor, with her experience and years of expertise, would surely have been able to buy several modern cars and provide better living conditions for her family.

However, in the Cuban reality, doctors face precarities in their daily lives, from insufficient salaries to a lack of basic materials; the government opts for ceremonial and symbolic acts that do not solve the structural problems of the country.

Once in a while, the regime "gives away" used cars to professionals with decades of experience as a form of "recognition."

After 40 years of teaching and many more working in the health sector, a Cuban physiologist received her first car from the State, a gesture that the official press promoted as the "gift of the Revolution" to health professionals on the Island.

According to the local newspaper 5 de Septiembre, professor Sandra Williams Serrano, a specialist in Physiology from the Raúl Dorticós University of Medical Sciences in Cienfuegos, received in 2018 the keys to "her brand new car."

That same year, in the middle of the street in Ciego de Ávila, a Cuban doctor was given a car as recognition "for her professional performance."

It is about the health professional Belkys Celaida Díaz Fernández, to whom the Provincial Direction of Public Health delivered a Kia Picanto car.