Medical student Daniela Castell witnessed how a 30-year-old patient died in an intermediate therapy room because there was no mannitol.
“Somehow the Ministry of Health will have to drown [Pública]”Not because of a salary increase or some property of its own for the medical staff, but because of the conditions to fulfill this oath which is to put the patient first,” said the young Cuban.
Mannitol is a sweetener obtained from the hydrogenation of mannose sugar. It belongs to the group of sweeteners called polyols or polyalcohols and in medicine it is used 20% as an osmotic diuretic in acute situations, such as nephrotic syndrome, or to relieve intracranial hypertension. It also facilitates cranial surgical manipulation. It acts on the proximal contoured tubule of the nephron, facilitating water filtration and thus increasing its excretion.
“Medical power my ovaries, Cuban doctors are the only medical power that make the heart strong to save with the little, or rather without anything, and that must change,” he concluded.
Faced with the shortage of health personnel across the country and with the increase in positive cases of coronavirus the Cuban authorities targeted medical students and recent graduates in the red areas where patients with the disease are found.
The text shared by Daniela Castell provoked reactions from some Internet users, who responded with their arguments as to why these things happen.
For Bertalina Astran, a Facebook user, “the Cuban public health strategy is political” and “the tactic to achieve the constitutional right of all citizens of our country to be cared for and protect their health (. ..) must be eminently scientific “.
However, he believes that today the opposite is happening and the Government is acting without taking into account the opinion of experts and their suggestions on how to address crises.
“That’s why the disaster we are facing today, that’s why the management of the epidemic has gotten out of hand and it is the people who are paying for it with their lives,” he added.
He also criticized the state press for showing a reality that does not correspond to what hundreds of Cubans live and that the videos or photographs shared on the Internet are not always fake news nor funded by the United States, as the pro-government discourse insists.
“Spend more time looking at what people are showing you on their networks, and less time posting on Twitter that they have nothing to do with everyday reality and that only show how far you live from your village,” he said. mention.
Since an increase in positive coronavirus cases of the disease-related infections and deaths has been reported on the island.
Authorities say they have everything under control, but independent reports say there is not only a lack of staff, but of medicines, tickets and means of protection for patients and healthcare professionals.
In the midst of the crisis the people took to the streets to protest peacefully on 11J and not only called for medicine, food and vaccines, but political changes in Cuba to stop the Communist Party from ruling.
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