The Cuban journalist Hector Gonzalezwho suffers from end-stage renal disease, asked for help to obtain a humanitarian visa that allows him to access specialized treatment in the United States.
Héctor, 39, requires undergoing treatment in a Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) programbut currently the supplies in Cuba are insufficient to incorporate new patients, which is why the application for a humanitarian visa is being processed.
For this reason, the young journalist requests aid to raise funds and be able to cover treatments, consultations and medicines that you need in this, the only treatment that could save him.
“Going several weeks without treatment, for me, is a sure encounter with death“, Héctor explained on the GoFundMe platform where he appealed “to the generosity and goodwill of friends, colleagues, brothers in the Faith, and all those who want to support.”
With the money donatedthe communicator may also pay attorneys’ fees who handle your case.
In June transcended that Héctor already had the documentation of American doctors willing to treat him; but he needed a sponsor to complete the humanitarian visa process, a document that, in addition to allowing him to travel to the United States, would allow him to opt for insurance to cover his expenses.
The journalist, who has been a press correspondent in China and a university professor, has had 21 catheters that have severely damaged his vascular system, to the point that his main veins are clogged and it is no longer possible to do dialysis through that route.
He was diagnosed with the disease in 2018 while in China.
In Cuba, according to what he said, he received treatment at the Institute of Nephrology of Havana where he was in intensive care for about three months and they could not determine the causes of kidney failure, which usually occurs due to diabetes, polycystic kidneys or hypertension, but he did not present any symptoms, and to this day the causes are unknown.
According to his testimony, he spent time in monthly consultations until in 2020 a kidney stopped working and he had to resort to hemodialysis, a process through which toxins and water are filtered from the blood.
However, the complication came when, as he explained, he began to present vascular problems to gain access through the veins.
