as a tool Medical Neglect of torture.
The use of inadequate medical care as an instrument of torture is a weapon used by the Castro dictatorship against its opponents. What happened to the lady, Edilberto Moreno Fernández, activist of the Alternative Option Independent Movement well evidenced.
In 2006 this opposition was admitted to the Hospital " Faustino Pérez" in the province of Matanzas. The cause of his detention was chronic renal failure, which according to medical reports treated.
As a freethinker, a nephrologist, kidney specialist, named Vionahilda , mocked his religious faith and said,''you accept turn to lose.'' Assimilate any such expression as a breach of medical ethics, and no more, but no, the phrase meant something more than that.
And is that Ms. Moreno was assisted this year in the National Institute of Nephrology in Havana. appalled that during one of his visits to the facility told him, without much further explanation, that its history was disappeared. The opposition remained five years self medicating. Realized that behind all this was the hand of the political police, an institution that does not forgive, because she was a human rights defender, so he feared for his life.
patient photos Edilberto Moreno.
was logical that if the State Security Department hampered the efforts that the patient carried out, together with their families, to get a kidney transplant, his health deteriorated. According Edilia, that I applauded the scheme. The case of the president of your organization, Ariel Sigler Amaya, served today by the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, is not erased from your mind. This activist suffers from paraplegia not allowed to walk because of a virus acquired from a suspect in a prison in Cuba.
December 21 last year was the date Edilberto Moreno began to be addressed again at the Hospital "Faustino Pérez" de Matanzas. At the same went with very low hemoglobin, swelling in various body fluids and debris lodged in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
Despite their fears, opponents, friends and family convinced her not to leave to attend the hospital. '' Although I know that my life is in danger and I fear for any act of revenge by the dictatorship will continue with hemodialysis ''he said, then, the activist.
But the anger of the political police and its proxies did not fail to turn against this courageous advocate of law and non-violence. It has had to travel to the Hospital in a car, with several patients and relatives, one of those patients, sick with colds and hepatitis, because public health authorities so disposed.
A nurse who performed the washing hemodialysis or blood, on 15 January last, he needles introduced blood transfusion in a non-prescribed by doctors. Upon entering his arm abundant blood outside the artery that is inflamed.
That day, I assure Edilia, said nurse pressed or artery fistula needles, and retired to do other chores. Because of the strong pulse and blood pressure, needles lost contact with the artery, and as the nurse was not in place, you abundant blood emanated from the arm and had to shout to the attending, and do not bleed.
Moreno was rushed to the Provincial Hospital. There, a angiologist, a specialist in blood vessels, informed him that the failure was caused by negligence of the nurse. For reporting these events, and organizations urge World and Pan American Health to intervene in the matter, the activist was harassed last January 23 at the Hospital. That day to reach the institution faced a stunning display that included a dozen police agents, three patrol cars and several motorcycles.
That's part of the'''' assistance received by this woman, aged 46, married with three children, who lives on Calle 12 No.1709, between 17y19, Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas. If that is not torture, then what is?
* Cuban independent journalist. communicators' Cuban Red .
Source: Cuba Democracia y Vida .
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