Pregnant women and critical patients are being evacuated by helicopter from isolated areas in Guantánamo.

A helicopter from the Cuban Armed Forces evacuated pregnant women, critically ill patients, and other vulnerable individuals from remote areas in Guantánamo on Thursday, following the passage of Hurricane Oscar through the eastern region of Cuba.

A post on the official profile of the Eastern Army reported that, after several flight missions transporting food, a military helicopter was responsible for "the evacuation of several term pregnant women, patients in need of intensive care, and an infant with their mother."

The source did not specify where these people were relocated, who are part of the thousands evacuated after the unprecedented floods that have devastated and isolated towns in the municipalities of Imías and San Antonio del Sur.

"We don't expect anything, we are comforted by the satisfaction of duty fulfilled and being useful," said the crew members of the aircraft, according to the post from the Eastern Army, one of the three major military formations of the Cuban regime's armed forces.

The text exalts the dedication of the helicopter crew members as "a reflection of what is now commonplace when a country mobilizes to support its children."

According to the publication, "this is a war for life and health. It's all for the people"; and as is the leitmotif in the regime's propaganda, such actions are considered an achievement of the revolution.

However, the figures of evacuated individuals that have been published so far on government sites and official news outlets are contradictory, and it is not specified on what date their relocation to safe areas occurred.

While the newspaper Granma reported over 15,000 evacuated residents - 9,000 in Imías and 6,000 in San Antonio del Sur - in the program "Mesa Redonda," the second chief of the Operations Department of the National Civil Defense Staff (EMNDC), Major César Eduardo Cross Licea, said that "4,865 people are being sheltered in evacuation centers" and "another 443 remain protected in the homes of family, friends, and neighbors, who are guaranteed their safety and food until the recovery stage is declared."

Meanwhile, rescue efforts continue in search of entire families that have gone missing, according to reports from residents.

Rescue and salvage brigades are attempting to locate people in both municipalities who are lost following mudslides and the rising of rivers and dams.

This Thursday, MINFAR reported on "an aerial operation to transport food towards Imías," as that municipality remains cut off by road due to the severe damage caused by the hurricane.

In recent days, residents of San Antonio del Sur and Imías, the areas most affected by the hurricane, along with family members living outside the province or the country, have raised their voices to criticize the ineffective actions of the government to prevent and mitigate the consequences of the meteorological event on the inhabitants of those areas.

People question why the authorities did not provide prior information about the hurricane's passage through the region, knowing that the entire province was left without electricity due to the collapse of the SEN. They also state that the Civil Defense system was not activated in time in those municipalities, nor were evacuation plans made to safe and high areas to protect residents, who were left to fend for themselves at their own risk.

As of today, the government has confirmed the death of seven people, six in San Antonio del Sur and one in Imías.

However, the testimonies of those affected cast doubt on the official figures provided by the authorities. A resident of San Antonio del Sur stated that the reality is much more critical and that the deaths and disappearances far exceed what has been reported.

On the social media of Cubans, unofficial reports are circulating that place the deaths above twenty and the missing at over 70. Authorities have not commented on these figures.

Desperate for uncertainty and lack of information, family members of missing people have turned to social media with pleas for help to locate them.