Alaidy Oviedo Crespo, 28 years old and a mother of a young girl, passed away in a hospital in Cienfuegos while preparing to undergo a liposuction with fat transfer, a procedure for which she was allegedly going to be charged 1,800 dollars. The young woman never made it to the operating room.
According to the report shared by Mag Jorge Castro and amplified by the platform Alas Tensas, Alaidy experienced a severe reaction after receiving a medication that, according to the testimony of her childhood friend Arianna Isabel Abrahantes, may have been ceftriaxone, an antibiotic.
The exact cause of death has not been officially clarified, and the family continues to receive no explanations from the medical center.
The first public alert was issued by the verified page "Nio reportando un crimen," which stated that the young woman went into cardiac arrest while being anesthetized and that simultaneous power failures prevented her from being revived.
In response to that version, the page "Las Cosas de Fernanda", which is close to the government, confirmed the death but denied any connection to power outages, stating that the hospital had two operational power generators and two protection circuits.
However, several residents of Cienfuegos contradicted that version in the comments of that post. One user wrote: "I don't know the cause of the young woman's death, but there was indeed an electrical failure because I was in the hospital. You should investigate properly; you can't cover the sun with a finger."
Another user reported that on that day she went to the hospital to get an X-ray for a fracture and that "from 4 PM to 7 PM, I was waiting... and due to those failures, the system kept deactivating over and over again."
Abrahantes questioned the hospital's response capacity in the face of the emergency and demanded an investigation into what substances were administered to Alaidy, how the medical staff acted, and whether there were any instances of negligence. "We do not want Alaidy to be just another death, a news story that is forgotten tomorrow or a tale that no one dares to tell," he stated.
The case is set against a publicly acknowledged health crisis by the regime itself: days before Alaidy's death, the Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal Miranda, publicly admitted shortages of medications, disposable materials, reagents, and medical equipment, as well as malfunctions in generators, elevators, and water systems in Cuban hospitals.
The electrical situation in Cienfuegos further exacerbates the outlook. The provincial Electric Company acknowledged in October interruptions of up to 89 continuous hours in some circuits, including those identified as backups for hospitals.
In Cuba, private medical practice is formally prohibited, yet informal services charging in dollars thrive, operating with little oversight and without guarantees of resources in emergencies. Alaidy's case adds to a series of reports of alleged medical negligence documented throughout 2026 in hospitals across Cuba.
The family of Alaidy Oviedo Crespo awaits answers as the circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear and no health authority has issued an official statement on the case.
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