A patient residing in Santiago de Cuba who has undergone 24 surgical operations denounced that the health authorities of the province have ignored her case.
Bricella Hernández Medina, 46, told the independent portal Cubanet She suffers from the Human Papilloma Virus and has been operated on numerous times without noticing any improvement in her quality of life, which entails expenses that she cannot afford, such as the purchase of disposable adult diapers.
Although she has requested medical attention and humanitarian aid on numerous occasions to improve her home and buy the medical supplies she needs, she has received no response.
Product of the interventions women He suffers from urinary incontinence and has a pension of 1,500 pesos, which is not even enough to buy diapers, he said.
Some time ago the patient, who was previously a Public Health worker, was diagnosed with moderate dysplasia, a pathology caused by the virus, and was unable to continue working.
Since then, she has suffered five perforations of the bladder and vagina: “I survive with a 1,500-peso checkbook that only gives me enough for a pack of pampers. I am diabetic, hypertensive, colitis, gastroparesis, thrombophilia, esophageal achalasia, a large hernia, more grade 3 urinary incontinence that consumes my life”, he explained.
He said that he no longer knows what to do to improve his quality of life and that “it is unusual that there is not a leader or someone who takes responsibility for my health problem,” said Hernández Medina.
Similar complaints abound in the social networks of Cuban Internet users. The case of a young Cuban mother afflicted with six abdominal hernias who lacked specialized medical care in the Holguin municipality of Cacocum.
The woman suffers severe pain that her neighbors must alleviate and only through public complaints did the authorities visit her at her home.
