MIAMI, United States. – The testimony published by CubaNet This Thursday, entitled “’There are always remains’: a hell in the Santiago de Cuba Curettage Room”, has unleashed an avalanche of stories from Cuban women who have gone through traumatic experiences in the country’s maternity hospitals. Dozens of women have shared their stories about curettage and childbirth on the Island, and the resulting picture is grim.
“There are always remains”… narrates, in first person, the distressing experience of a woman who suffered abuse in the Curettage Room of the “Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas” Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, in mid-2022. According to her testimony, patients are subjected to painful procedures and, in many cases, without anesthesia. In addition, the woman denounced the unsanitary conditions of the place and the lack of empathy of health professionals, which aggravated her situation and left her traumatized, physically and emotionally.
After hearing the testimony, dozens of women shared their experience on social networks. CubaNetwhich has undertaken to investigate the allegations. Here is a selection of the new testimonies:
The Internet user identified as Mary Pupo She commented on the vulnerability and fear that a woman feels in such situations. Although she acknowledged that there are still health professionals with “good feelings,” she criticized the lack of compassion and verbal abuse that patients often receive. “These are very difficult times for any woman who is in that situation; one feels vulnerable, worried, afraid, and it is true that sometimes [los trabajadores de Salud] They do not even have the care to speak softly to let the women undergoing surgery rest, nor do they have the compassion to treat them.”
Karen Diaz She highlighted the desperation felt by being trapped in a failing health system. “For years it has been unbearable to fall into that chain. Now it must be hell on earth.”
Joanna Boza Garcia He extended the criticism to other hospitals in the country, pointing out the mistreatment and deplorable conditions. “That’s everywhere, don’t come to the hospital [Hospital] Santa Clara Maternity Hospital [porque] You will be surprised by everything you see. I personally came away traumatized, not by the filth, but by the mistreatment, by everything they make you go through; it is a horror… speechless.”
Mariela Veranes She recounted her traumatic birth experience in 1988. “Everything I went through was horrible. They treated me badly. I went into labor on the 18th and was able to give birth on the 21st. I was tired, sad, it was my first time and I was 24 years old. I was bleeding and they didn’t want to perform a Caesarean or help me give birth like a human being. That wasn’t all. I was also left with remains. I had a very bad time and had to undergo curettage.”
Cristobalina Irsula Zamora He was also left with remains after a curettage. “It was the same many years ago, just ask me, even in one of the curettages they did on me there were two [fetos] and they left one of me dead, I almost died. The most painful thing was the indifference and mistreatment, mainly from the nurses.”
Yami The Rose described her recent experience with a diagnostic curettage. “I had a diagnostic curettage recently and it looked [que] They were stabbing me inside. The truth is that it is very painful without anesthesia, and the situation in the hospitals is very sad.”
Danay Dominguez Menendez She compared the pain of a curettage to that of a Caesarean section. “A painful procedure? No, it’s the next best thing. I’d rather go through the recovery from a Caesarean a thousand times than undergo that procedure. I went through it just once and it was enough.”
Martha Maray Hernandez Rumbaut She described her experience of giving birth in 1992, in which she highlighted the mistreatment and lack of empathy of health professionals. “It is very sad what we women go through, whether you make the decision to give birth or to abort, the treatment is very bad, they have no respect, we are treated as if we were dogs, there is no comparison.”
Anisleidy Perez Morejon She said that she was only attended to by the health personnel after fainting. “My story at the Santa Clara Maternity Hospital: I arrived with intense bleeding, I waited forever for them to attend to me on a bench in the living room. When they realized, they were running with me because they had to give me a transfusion, all this after having gone two days in a row and sleeping on the benches. I had to faint for them to attend to me (…). I almost died or they killed me.”
Time Vicente: “They tell you: ‘You knew this hurt.’ Yes, it hurts, it hurts a lot, but it would hurt less if you took my hand and accompanied me in this nightmare or in this dream in case it was the birth. They should be more humane, I am a doctor, and I know what I saw. I had my experience when I was a student and a doctor said to a little girl who was in labor: ‘Didn’t your mother tell you that this hurt?’ And I called him aside and said: ‘Look, doctor, it’s unbelievable that with so much knowledge you are so dehumanized, you better than anyone should know that giving birth hurts, but support her, (…) change, doctor.”
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2024-07-22 15:37:57
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