The phrase “It is not from Granma, it is from the Ministry of Public Health,” published by official Yudelkis Ortiz Barceló, president of the Provincial Defense Council, makes it clear that the field hospital donated by India may be removed from the eastern territory when the regime deems it appropriate, despite the critical health situation facing the population.
The temporary center was set up in the municipality of Río Cauto, Granma province, following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, which left hospitals damaged, communities isolated, and hundreds of homes destroyed.
Its installation addresses the lack of functioning medical infrastructure and the urgent need for basic healthcare in the area, where outbreaks of diseases such as chikungunya have multiplied in recent weeks.
According to the broadcaster CMKX Radio Bayamo, the hospital has a patient classification area, a diagnostic imaging room, an observation room, a surgical unit, and a mobile laboratory.
Although the authorities claim that they will be able to assist around three hundred people within a period of twenty-four to forty-eight hours, specialists acknowledge that their resources are limited and that their presence is merely a temporary response to a deeper crisis.
The Cuban regime has presented the installation as a gesture of "solidarity" and international cooperation, but the truth is that the country is increasingly dependent on foreign aid to sustain essential services.
Hospitals in the east continue to lack resources after Melissa impacted the region, facing shortages of medications, exhausted staff, and deteriorating sanitary conditions that have worsened the spread of chikungunya and other mosquito-borne diseases. The Indian donation arrives amid one of the worst crises in the Cuban healthcare system in decades.
The field hospital may temporarily alleviate some medical emergencies, but its arrival once again highlights the regime's inability to ensure healthcare in the most affected regions of the country.
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