“What isolation is this in which four people can infect each other”

Cuban journalist Michel Hernández, who was transferred to an isolation center on suspicion of coronavirus, complained about the conditions there and the bureaucracy of the officials in charge.

“What isolation is this in which four people can infect each other,” Hernández said in a complaint post published on the social network Facebook.

It all started when they arrived at his home on Tuesday to fumigate, and his mother was transferred to the Casablanca Isolation Center “due to a cough that disappeared immediately.”

“Then it was my turn to be taken to Cojímar. In the Ministry of Public Health they confirmed that the protocol is to move the relatives to the same place and they wonder why it was not like that. Obviously that is one of the many questions that they have come out in a rush in this time. I have tried to have some answers through the most institutional channels but so far they have not been cleared, “said the journalist.

In the room where he is now, and which he shares with three other people in the center, the doctor explained that if anyone tests positive, then they would all have to remain in the isolation center of the Villa Panamericana.

“You have no fever, no symptoms, but you have to take care of yourself here and maintain hygiene,” a doctor also told them this morning.

However, the journalist has said that “the chlorine is conspicuous by its absence.”

“Hygiene, we already know, is essential to keep COVID away, but my 3 roommates and I do not have in the room the disinfectant or the personal hygiene that must be given to us,” he said.

As an update on the situation, the journalist later reported that a group of doctors had passed through his room in the isolation center and assured them of all the conditions for this time of isolation.

“They explained that there is no lack of disinfectant in the center but that, apparently, there was a certain disconnection,” they were told.

There are not a few complaints from citizens admitted to isolation centers since the coronavirus pandemic began.

In the month of April, a group of nine Holguineros they decided to go on a hunger strike as a protest against the lack of hygiene and medical attention to which they were subjected at the Manuel Piti Fajardo University of Culture and Sports, where they went on suspicion of coronavirus.

A doctor told Cubanet that in that center “they are treated like dogs, they do not even take vital signs, they demand that they be tested for the coronavirus and the doctors refuse. Since they went on a hunger strike they have been thrown trays of food to the ground ”.

Recently, another journalist who also remained in an isolation center in Havana shared a list of articles on social networks that they had to be taken to one of these centers, in order to make the stay easier.

This list includes a fan, toilet paper, plenty, toiletries, mosquito repellent and medications, cutlery, jugs, doorknobs, and bedding, walking and bedding, hypochlorite, and disinfectants.

This Thursday the Cuban Government reported 8 new confirmed positive cases to coronavirus. The total amounts to 2,219 patients since the epidemic began on the Island.

Currently, 516 patients are admitted to hospitals for clinical epidemiological surveillance, and Primary Health Care follows the evolution of 423 people from their homes.

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