Ana María Madrazo Mejías is torn between the uncertainty of seeing her mother sick and the satisfaction she feels for the care lavished on her by the doctors and nurses of the Cardiology service.
“She came from the municipality of Colombia, because she was diagnosed with low heart failure. She was immediately attended to by wonderful doctors who have given us all the information about her condition.
“He needed a transient pacemaker and they put it in. Now we are waiting for them to take her to Holguín or Bayamo to put a permanent one on her. Thanks to this Revolution, my mother will be able to have another few years of life.
“I hope that the president of the United States does not make the situation we have more difficult.”
Dr. Adrián Hernández Carballo is the head of service of the intensive care unit of the Doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Hospital, a “purely technological” area that is among the three with the best results in the country, “thanks to the medical and nursing team we have here.”
There, despite the scarcity of medical supplies, all treatments are carried out with precision. And this is attested to by the recovered patients and their families, who arrive from the other existing therapy rooms in the province, to centralize resources.
In relation to seriously pregnant women, excellence in services is sought, and for more than a year none has died. This is one of the indicators that the Washington government wants to reverse with its inhumane measures to hurt the Cuban population.