The ordeal of kidney patients in Cuba: ‘If you want your daughter to live, you have to get her out of the country’
Faced with a dire shortage of medicines, supplies and medical personnel despite the authorities’ claims about the quality of Cuban healthcare, many patients are considering migrating just to survive. Others cannot afford to even think about it
It’s as if a snake has crept into Ayamey Valdés’s arm… an 11-inch-long snake, thick, deformed and violent. Oftentimes, it seems that she has volcanoes erupting on her skin. They spit blood until she’s left without strength, with her skin dyed a cyanotic blue. That’s when the arteriovenous fistula in her arm bursts: it swells, oozes and hurts.
