The independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada confirmed this Thursday the death of one of the patients who had been reported in conditions of extreme neglect in ward A of the Amalia Simoni Hospital in Camagüey.
Just 24 hours after making public the situation of two patients in a state of abandonment at Amalia Simoni, the family of one of the affected individuals confirmed their death. The name of the deceased and details about their age were not reported.
"I come to inform you that unfortunately one of the patients I reported yesterday who was in a state of abandonment in Room A of the Amalia Simoni Hospital has passed away," announced Tan Estrada in a video posted on his Facebook profile.
The journalist's sources confirmed that the man came from the Home for the Physically Disabled in the province of Camagüey and had already arrived at the hospital in critical condition.
"My sources tell me that he had been in a state of significant physical deterioration since the Home for the Disabled in the province of Camagüey," he specified.
Tan Estrada detailed that the patient was malnourished and suffered from hepatitis: "Malnourished with a very severe outbreak of hepatitis in that institution, but unfortunately, he passed away."
The original report, published on Wednesday, described a situation of systematic neglect in that hospital ward: elderly individuals, people with disabilities, and patients coming from psychiatric institutions were found nearly naked, with visible ribs and covered in feces. "No one bathes them. No one cleans them. No one feeds them," the journalist had warned.
In October 2025, reports emerged of abandoned elderly individuals without care in the provincial hospital in Camagüey. In July 2026, a psychiatric patient from Mayarí collapsed due to malnutrition, contributing to a pattern that is occurring throughout the island.
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