A woman identified as Doraima, residing in the area of Palmarito, in the region of Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, is in a critical mental health condition without medical attention, according to an urgent call posted on Facebook by the community page "El Trinitario de a Pie".
Those who make up that page went to Doraima's home and found her in a state of severe decompensation, apparently caused by the lack of her medication. "We found her in a really poor condition, apparently due to the lack of her medication," they stated in the post.
The team attempted to approach her and offer assistance, but the woman refused any kind of support. In the video accompanying the call, Doraima refuses to take pills or eat food: "No, I don't want any more pills, I don't want any more pills or food. It's the same poison," she is heard saying.
A voice in the recording describes the situation as "unmedicated quicofrenia," a colloquial reference to schizophrenia, suggesting that Doraima suffers from a mental disorder that is not receiving the necessary medication.
Those who published the video warned that the images do not reflect the true severity of the situation: "What is shown in the video is only a part... the situation is much worse than it seems." The appeal concludes with a specific request for specialists to assess the woman.
The case of Doraima is not an isolated one. Just days before, a 26-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia in Velasco, Holguín was living locked in a room with bars because her family could not manage her crises or obtain her medications, a situation that also went viral on social media.
Both situations are framed within the medication shortage crisis in Cuba, which particularly severely affects psychotropic drugs.
BioCubaFarma meets only 40% of the national demand for psychotropics, and among the most scarce medications are risperidone, quetiapine, clonazepam, and sertraline.
The Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, acknowledged in July 2025 that the availability of essential medications did not exceed 32%.
In 2026, only three out of ten medications from the basic list were available in public pharmacies, a situation that the mental health crisis in Cuba has turned into a silent emergency.
The page "El Trinitario de a Pie" operates as an informal community support network in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, and has previously highlighted other cases of vulnerable individuals in the region, in the absence of an institutional response from the Cuban healthcare system.
The video of Doraima's case has accumulated over 11,400 views and generated hundreds of reactions, with neighbors and users from all over Cuba calling for urgent intervention from health authorities.
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