«There is a tremendous dengue outbreak,» warns the Cubans

From the island, several Cubans interviewed by Martí News, alerted about the proliferation of the spotlights of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, dengue transmitter and warned that infestation levels by the virus are increasing.

In the city of Santa Clara, the independent communicator Guillermo del Sol, said that the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, practically does not have resources for the anti -directorial campaign and that makes dengue «more and more aggressive with the population.»

«Yes, there is a tremendous dengue outbreak that is making a dent in the population, at the moment my son Adrián is infected. There is also a tremendous outbreak of hepatitis that is spoken of little, there is an outbreak of leprosy. Microverters are everywhere, the masonal rivers are rotten and the communal company itself already pours towards those bricklayers,» said the sun.

Recently, the director of Epidemiology of Minsap, Dr. Francisco Durán, called on national television to maintain hygiene because the two arbovirosis that are presented today in Cuba are transmitted through insects: the mosquito, in the case of dengue, and the jején, in the case of OroPouche.

«The clinical picture they have come to introduce us is quite benign, without great complications,» said the expert.

Duran said that «the most important thing with these diseases is to go to the doctor immediately when the symptoms appear, especially febrile syndromes due to the possible complications that dengue has in children, but in other people too.»

But in Baracoa, Guantanamo, the independent communicator Emilio Almaguer says that patients do not want to go to the doctor.

«Here in the neighborhood where I live there are cases of dengue, there are families who have become ill with that and many who have not gone to the hospital and have passed it at home and at three days we are standing again,» he said.

In his opinion, «it is a battle» what the settlers face every day.

«Not only with the issue of food, but also with the issue of diseases, the purchase of medicines, which must be purchased on the street, in the informal black market, because pharmacies lack everything,» he said.

«It’s a disaster, a disaster. Thus we live the day to day,» said the Guantanamero.

Lucinda González, resides in the municipality of Lisa, in Havana, where she still recovers from dengue.

«I am a survivor of dengue, I am still sleeping under a mosquito net. This is not going to end as long as there are shortages of everything, from medications, food, garbage, Cuba has become an eternal dump,» said the activist.

From La Maya, in Santiago de Cuba, Dr. Roberto Serrano denounced: «There are cases of dengue, everything is wrong. Here, unfortunately, there is nothing that is regular, everything is wrong here, from critical, hygiene is something that worsens daily because here everything is a problem.»

«The government to suppress is the only thing in which it is efficient, but in everything that has to do with public health, medicines, hospitals hygiene, everything is a disaster,» he added.

Serrano said that in the cities «the garbage dumps are immense, the water supply is lousy and the puddles are endless.»

«The State is deplorable, as far as hygiene is concerned. A total disaster, they have no minimum indispensable to combat any disease, no epidemic, no outbreak, there are no resources of any kind,» he said.

The doctor said that the country does not allocate resources for sanitation and fumigation.

On the other hand, he warned that there is no medication availability. «Pharmacies are totally empty to alleviate any type of outbreak in the symptomatic part. It is a total chaos, this country really sits.»