By Benjamín Noria
HAVANA TIMES – On Saturday, I received a post via WhatsApp discussing the sentences issued for some doctors who were prosecuted by a criminal court in Bayamo. These doctors belonged to the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Hospital in Bayamo, Granma, and were accused of medical negligence in November 2023, following the death of a patient in the operating room. The defendants claimed that the main cause was the lack of supplies such as suture material, probes, and a defective CT scanner in this hospital.
William Perez Rodriguez has a one-year prison sentence, radiologist Elizabeth Silveira was acquitted, Rafael Jose Sanchez Vazquez has a two-year prison sentence, Yoandra Quesada Labrada has one year and six months, Ristian Solano has three years, and Henry Rosales Pompa has two years.
What a misfortune for these healthcare professionals to fall under the claws of a Cuban court in the service of the totalitarian government. It is truly regrettable what has happened to the