“No quiero quedarme ciego”
Alejandro Navea Maldonado es un promotor de salud cubano que desde 2018 está esperando una cita para una cirugía de cataratas. La enfermedad ha avanzado tanto que ya no puede ejercer su profesión. Navea Maldonado pide ayuda para resolver su situación.
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Alejandro Navea Maldonado es un promotor de salud cubano que desde 2018 está esperando una cita para una cirugía de cataratas. La enfermedad ha avanzado tanto que ya no puede ejercer su profesión. Navea Maldonado pide ayuda para resolver su situación.
Información y ayuda: +53 55027061
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00:00 Alejandro Navea Maldonado is a Cuban health promoter who has been waiting for an appointment for a cataract surgery since 2018.
00:08 The disease has advanced so much that he can no longer exercise his profession.
00:12 Alejandro showed ADN Cuba the messages he has sent to the Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology Ramón Pando Ferrer, requesting an appointment for surgery.
00:22 The health agency has only told him that a person will contact him, but so far this has not happened.
00:29 Alejandro is an example of the negligence of the health system in Cuba.
00:33 His case is a clear example of how people who need medical attention cannot get it,
00:39 even when it comes to a common and relatively simple surgery such as cataracts.
00:45 My name is Alejandro Navea Maldonado.
00:49 I am a health promoter, I belong to the Provincial Technical Team of Health.
00:54 At the moment I am not exercising any function because of the problem of my sight.
00:59 I have practically no right eye, I see practically nothing.
01:04 On the right eye I see a little hole and on the left eye it is completely closed.
01:10 I see nothing, I have a full eye, but I see nothing.
01:13 I dedicated myself to being a health promoter in the function of work, in the system of health care,
01:22 but I can no longer exercise the function because now I am in my house to do the orders,
01:29 to go and buy the things that I need, and practically on the left eye I see nothing.
01:35 Since 2018 I have been waiting for this situation.
01:39 I saw with both eyes.
01:41 In 2018 I had a small cataract in the eye,
01:47 so it got complicated with the years and the years went from 2018 to 2023.
01:54 I practically see nothing on the left eye and I see through a little hole on the right eye.
02:02 Going to consultations, I have had communication with the hospital Pando Ferrer,
02:10 the Pando Ferrer Institute, I have had communication.
02:13 They have stopped communicating with me, they do not want to attend to me.
02:17 They told me that the population care would call me.
02:20 I already did two interviews with the population care in the hospital and they have not called me.
02:27 I'm waiting.
02:29 I want to see the director, they don't let me see the director either.
02:33 I'm in the consultation problem, in the national one too,
02:38 and they don't call me either because I called the doctor yesterday,
02:43 and she told me that there was no supply, that there was nothing to operate,
02:47 that there are no lenses, there are no lenses, here in this country there are no lenses.
02:50 Here the hospitals are completely collapsed.
02:53 I am going to report to the whole world so that they know my case, because it is happening to me.
02:58 Here the hospitals are completely collapsed, there is no medicine, there is nothing.
03:02 Nothing, nothing, nothing, everything is thrown on the floor, complete.
03:07 There are no pills, no uragine, no drugs, there is nothing.
03:12 And I am practically waiting to operate myself.
03:16 I want to ask for international help, international help,
03:21 the Red Cross International because I belong to the Red Cross too.
03:24 I am a graduate of the Red Cross.
03:26 So I want to ask for help to see if they can operate me.
03:29 To a foreign country that is taking care of me because I am afraid that they will operate me here in Cuba.
03:34 What do the health authorities tell you or what does the health institute tell you
03:39 about why they don't give you the appointment?
03:41 What is the reason and justification that they give you?
03:44 No, for that part I have not received more answers.
03:49 And nothing, they know my phone number, they know everything, my situation.
03:54 They know my name, they know where I live.
03:57 And you know, I have practically lost my fear because I am not afraid to file a complaint
04:04 because I have a disease that I have been positive since 1989.
04:09 I am a case of suicide, they call me taking therapy.
04:12 And why should I be afraid if I have not died with this disease in 37 years?
04:19 I am afraid of the government, I will never have it.
04:22 So I have to talk about the bad things, the bad things they are doing here.
04:28 I have to talk about it.
04:30 I am not afraid, I am not afraid.
04:32 Whatever they want to do, they will do it.
04:34 I am a person sentenced to death.
04:37 They can do whatever they want to do.
04:39 I don't care.
04:41 I don't care.
04:42 I have been living with this disease for 37 years.
04:44 I don't care about anything.
04:46 They have taken my milk, 12 years without milk.
04:48 They have taken my fish, they have not given me fish.
04:52 I have been almost two years without being given fish.
04:54 A diet that was sent to me by the doctor.
04:57 That was at the world level.
04:59 At the world level.
05:01 That diet was at the world level, of the HIV/AIDS patients.
05:04 And they have taken my milk, they have taken my fish.
05:07 They don't give me chicken, what they give me is two liters of meat and 30 eggs.
05:11 They have taken everything else from me.
05:13 They say that you graduated from the Red Cross.
05:18 Have you tried to get help from them or from another international organization?
05:23 Yes, the National Hospital.
05:25 There was a doctor who was attending me there.
05:28 Because the case that they couldn't attend me here, in the Ferrer area.
05:33 The doctor was attending me there.
05:35 So I took the doctor to attend me there.
05:38 To see if in any of the hospitals they could operate on me.
05:41 In one or the other.
05:43 In the National Hospital, they say that there are no resources, no gloves, no glasses, nothing for me.
05:48 And in the evening, waiting for the answer, they know my phone number and they call me.
05:52 I had a doctor who was attending me, a Chilean doctor, his name was Clevin.
05:56 A Chilean doctor who was attending me.
05:58 When he left, he left me waiting.
06:01 He left me without consultation, he left me outside.
06:05 He told me to stay outside.
06:06 And he didn't leave me with any of the other doctors.
06:08 And now I'm abandoned in consultation, without a doctor from the Ferrer area.
06:13 And I have the history of the clinic, I sent it to you.
06:16 You saw the history of the clinic.
06:18 For all the papers I have done.
06:20 I also have the history of the National Clinic with all the papers I have done.
06:23 And I practically, in the Ferrer area, I was abandoned by that Chilean doctor.
06:27 He went outside, his name is Clevin.
06:30 He went outside and he didn't give me an explanation, he didn't tell me anything.
06:33 He didn't tell me that I had been to another doctor.
06:36 And now I'm here, without a doctor.
06:40 I'm here in the desert, I don't have a doctor to help me.
06:43 What I wanted was to ask for help.
06:46 To see how they can solve my situation, my eyes, my lenses.
06:52 Because if this country doesn't have lenses, I won't stay blind.
06:56 I won't stay blind because I have a desire to see, I have a desire to live.
07:00 And I don't want to stay blind.
07:02 I wanted to ask for help, to see how people can touch their hearts to me.
07:08 To see if they can donate me the lenses or operate me outside.
07:11 If they can't donate me the lenses, operate me outside.
07:14 I want to operate outside.
07:16 I want to operate outside.
07:18 I prefer to operate outside than to operate here in Cuba.
07:21 Because the situation here is chaotic.
07:23 It's chaotic, every day is less, less, less, less, less.
07:26 And everything is the high prices.
07:28 I practically get a check for 1,540 pesos.
07:32 That's what I live on.
07:34 A check for 1,540 pesos.
07:36 I don't live on that, I don't live on that check.
07:39 It's not enough for me at all.
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