A Cuban known on social media as «La Profe Repa» published a video on Facebook denouncing that her granddaughter has been unable to get vaccinated for months due to an unresolved electrical malfunction at the polyclinic Cristóbal Labra, in the municipality of La Lisa, Havana.
According to the woman, the center has been experiencing a "falling phase" for about two months that the electricity company has not addressed, which has prevented the minor from receiving two vaccines she was supposed to get in July and August.
"It's a mess, and my granddaughter here, sound asleep, without getting the vaccines she's due for since July," she says in the video, recorded while holding the baby in her arms.
The doctor from the clinic sent her to the Aleyda Fernández polyclinic, also in La Lisa, where they informed her that the nurse responsible for Cristóbal Labra had not arrived, and that she hadn't shown up the previous Wednesday either. Upon returning to Cristóbal Labra, the situation was the same: no one was administering vaccinations.
"I'm running around from Aleyda Fernández to Cristóbal Labra, all over La Lisa, and I still can't get my granddaughter's vaccine," the woman described after her fruitless pilgrimage between both centers.
The phrase that enraged thousands of users was straightforward: "If the polyclinic were privately owned, the phase drop would have been resolved, the engine problem would have been solved, and everything would have been taken care of."
The complainant also outright dismissed the official argument that attributes the problems to the U.S. embargo: "This is not the fault of the blockade. It is the result of the mismanagement by the people who are running this country."
He specifically named the director of the polyclinic and the electric company as responsible for not taking action, and concluded with a question that echoed in the comments: "The one from the polyclinic knows what needs to be done. So, how long the hell? How long?"
The case is not isolated. Díaz-Canel acknowledged in August that between 64,000 and 67,000 infants under one year had their vaccination schedules delayed or outdated, a situation he described as unprecedented in the history of Cuba's healthcare.
Days before the release of the video, the UN warned that power outages in Cuba jeopardize the vaccination of around 70,000 children by compromising the cold chain of vaccines, an issue that international organizations have been documenting for months.
La Lisa has been one of the municipalities most affected by power outages in Havana. Residents protested in front of the headquarters of the Communist Party after enduring more than 50 hours without electricity, and local circuits have reported prolonged failures throughout the year.
The Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, acknowledged in February 2026 that the system was "on the verge of collapse", in a context where more than 70% of the basic medicine supply was unavailable. The video of "La Profe Repa" was published just one day before the Cuban electrical grid suffered another total collapse, leaving millions of people without electricity across the country.
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