A Cuban identified as Dayami Melian posted a video on Facebook where she denounces the unsanitary conditions of the guard station at the Leopoldito Martínez Rodríguez General Teaching Hospital in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque province.
In the 36-second clip, Melian shows the bathroom in the emergency area completely flooded with urine, spilling out into the hallway of the medical center.
"These images show a bathroom in the guard post of the General Hospital of San José de las Lajas in Mayabeque Province, Cuba. You couldn’t enter because what you see in the images is urine, urine flowing out of the door," the author wrote alongside the video.
The floor of the hallway looks damp and worn, the walls covered with green tiles stained by moisture, and at the end, hospital stretchers can be seen.
What makes the testimony especially heartbreaking is the personal context that accompanies it: Melian recounts that she experienced that situation while accompanying her sick father.
"I experienced this with my father before taking him home so he could pass away peacefully in his own house and with his family," he wrote, making it clear that he preferred to take his father out of the hospital rather than leave him in those conditions.
The post garnered over 11,380 views, 387 reactions, and 125 comments, and concluded with a direct condemnation of the system: "Down with the disgusting communism that is killing an entire people."
This is not the first time this hospital has faced public complaints. In September 2024, another Cuban shared images of the same facility showing a clogged bathroom filled with feces, overcrowded patient rooms lacking privacy, and a shortage of medications and supplies.
That same year, the Health Directorate of Mayabeque publicly acknowledged serious deficiencies: a shortage of specialists in anesthesiology, surgery, and orthopedics, an intensive care unit with barely five beds, an insufficient generator for all the equipment, and the CT scanner, colonoscope, and laparoscope out of service.
Melian's complaint fits into a documented and recurring pattern. In recent weeks, similar situations have been reported at the Lenin Hospital in Holguín —with bathrooms lacking water, broken toilets, and infestations of bedbugs and cockroaches— and at the emergency room of the Orlando Pantoja Tamayo Hospital in Contramaestre, which has flooded floors and rusted pipes.
In August, wastewater was reported at the entrance of the Pediatric Hospital of Camagüey, and at the beginning of the year, leaks of sewage water appeared in the Gynecology emergency room of the Juan Bruno Zayas Hospital in Santiago de Cuba.
The deterioration is worsening in the context of a sustained energy crisis. This month, the UN warned that the prolonged blackouts in Cuba put at risk the vaccination of approximately 70,000 children and the operation of incubators and ventilators across the country.
A survey cited by Infobae revealed that 82% of Cubans rated the condition of hospitals and health centers in 2026 as poor, a figure that contrasts with the official narrative depicting the Cuban healthcare system as a model of excellence.
"Too much is happening in Cuba, and there are still those who defend this nonsense," Melian concluded in his post.
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