The Cuban scientist Raúl González Hernández, creator of the anti-anemic Trofin, has reported that he has been waiting for more than four and a half years for the authorities to provide him with the documentation to put the house of his deceased wife in his name. After making 24 visits to the state offices in the Havana municipality of La Lisa, he claims that he still has not received a solution.
«This whole odyssey is because I have no money,» expressed the 81-year-old researcher in a post on his Facebook profile this Thursday, October 8, under the heading «An Example of Bureaucracy, Inefficiency, and Mockery of the People».
González Hernández reported that on March 22, 2022, he submitted all the required documents to the Municipal Housing Directorate of La Lisa to process the property ownership. He explained that this office then forwarded the file to Physical Planning, whose functions were subsequently transferred to the System of Territorial and Urban Planning.
Since then, he asserts, the process remains unfinished.
Four years of efforts and 24 visits without a resolution
In his account, the scientist described a series of visits, explanations, and unfulfilled promises that have lasted for over four years.
He stated that he visited the offices responsible for his case 24 times. During that period, he received various explanations for the delays, including the need to measure the residence, a task that, he specified, was carried out on May 15, 2024.
On February 17, 2025, a worker would have informed her that the documentation was being prepared and that she no longer needed to keep traveling to the office, as they would notify her when it was ready.
However, he assured that he never received that notification.
In the absence of responses, González Hernández returned to the entity on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. Although they were not providing their usual service, he managed to speak with the deputy director, who advised him to come back on Thursday, October 8, as she believed the file might already be with the legal department.
But the new attempt also yielded no results.
According to his testimony, the legal specialist was participating in a municipal event and was unable to assist him. Later, he encountered the technician who had handled his case, who explained that she was not working that day and, in addition, the office was without electricity.
The only solution she received was to return the following Monday.
"This is how the people are treated with disdain, a lack of seriousness, and a lack of professionalism," he lamented.
The scientist also expressed his conviction that if he had had more financial resources, he would have resolved the issue long ago. This is a personal assessment from the affected individual, which does not amount to a documented complaint of illegal charges or bribery.
From the creator of a medication to a retiree denouncing state abandonment
The new complaint adds to a series of public demands from the researcher and his family regarding the conditions he faces after dedicating decades to Cuban science.
González Hernández was the founder and head of the Antianemic Laboratory at the National Center for Biopreparations (BioCen), where he developed an extensive career focused on the research of Trofin.
In December 2024, his daughter Elizabeth González Aznar reported that her father had difficulties even in obtaining the medication he had helped develop, which is necessary to treat anemia issues in their family.
Months later, in June 2025, it became known that the scientist was selling coffee to supplement his income.
This very week, the researcher harshly questioned the leadership of the Cuban regime and called for political and social changes.
"Understand that your opportunity has run out; do not prolong the suffering of the people any longer," he wrote on that occasion.
Also, her daughter reported to Miguel Díaz-Canel about the situation of Cuban retirees, using her father as an example, who, as she explained, receives a monthly pension of 4,500 pesos.
Bureaucratic obstacles in housing, a recurring problem in Cuba
The case of the creator of Trofin adds to other testimonies about the difficulties in obtaining or updating property documents in Cuba.
In May 2022, CiberCuba reported on the complaint of a woman from the Cerro municipality in Havana, who had been waiting three years for a housing procedure that was supposed to take only 90 days, according to her account.
For now, the researcher claims he is still waiting for the title of ownership of his home, more than four years after starting the process.
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