Medical Services for Prisoners Delayed in Ciego de Avila

Medical Services for Prisoners Delayed in Ciego de Avila / Ada Olimpia
Becerra Fuentes
Posted on November 13, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Cuba , November 12, 2013, Ada Olimpia / www.cubanet.org.-
Alberto Pérez Oliva, an inmate in Moron prison in Ciego de Avila, said
by telephone that in the past 10 days an injured inmate did not receive
medical attention due to negligence of the prison management.

Laine Sanchez Toledo was injured during the course of the night in a
settling of accounts; in the morning he was taken to the medical station
and later they sent him to the hospital in Morón, where he was admitted
in prison ward, given the severity of his injuries, Perez Oliva said.

Alberto, who is serving a sentence of five years in prison, said that he
too is a victim of inadequate medical care in that prison, because he
has gastric problems and they have not taken him to see a specialist.

He added that "Papito," a prisoner who died of respiratory failure at
Camp Trust, known as Pitajones, did not receive medical care at the
right time.

This reporter, in verifying the report via telephone with Morón prison,
was attended by the duty officer, who declined to give their data and
information.

Before this refusal, the Sánchez Toledo family was contacted, in the
person of Leonardo Sanchez Roman, and so it was possible to learn, with
certainty, about the events.

By Ada Olimpia Becerra Fuentes

Cubanet, 12 November 2013

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