They report the abandonment of a homeless person at a hospital in Camagüey

A public complaint by journalist José Luis Tan Estrada revealed this Tuesday a case of abandonment in the emergency room of the Provincial Hospital of Camagüey.

According to the report from Tan, a man, "apparently homeless," was lying on a stretcher with a strong smell, surrounded by flies and without any attention while he complained of severe pain.

“A man was lying on a stretcher, apparently homeless, with a strong odor, surrounded by flies, and no one was paying attention to him. He complained of severe pain, and the doctors kept passing by, doing nothing,” the publication states.

The witness to the event stated to Tan that he felt "deeply affected" by what he described as indifference to human suffering.

The same report links the incident to a broader social deterioration: in the city, it notes, images of elderly people on the streets—such as an old man behind the Hotel Plaza—reflect the crisis that the country is experiencing.

The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) places this context in its VIII Report on Social Rights, according to which 89% of Cubans live in extreme poverty, a situation that has been exacerbated by the spread of epidemics and the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa in the eastern part of the island.

In this regard, the OCDH denounces the systematic abandonment of the most vulnerable sectors and demands urgent actions to ensure the dignity and life of the population.

The organization emphasizes that cases like the one observed in the Camagüey hospital are not isolated instances, but rather symptoms of a social emergency that exceeds the capacity of institutional response.

Until the time of publication, there had been no official statements from the healthcare facility regarding the incident reported at the emergency room, nor any details about the condition of the patient who was allegedly neglected.

The complaint concludes with a call to not normalize these situations and to highlight cases of exclusion that, it warns, are multiplying amid the crisis.

Cuba remains the most aged country in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this context, retirees receive 4,000 pesos in pension, which hardly amounts to 9.5 dollars or less than 9 euros on the black market.

This means that the minimum pension in Cuba does not cover what, in most countries, equates to just one day of basic expenses.

Retirees are one of the groups most affected by the crisis. Without family remittances from abroad, it is virtually impossible to get by on what social security provides.