CIENFUEGOS – Monday, March 15, when the team of Granma When she got home, Maidi Martínez Pérez’s face was very different from the one on Sunday, February 21, when she was hospitalized at the Cienfuegos provincial hospital for “respiratory symptoms, shortness of breath, decay and fever”, according to her.
At 35 weeks of gestation, the 33-year-old girl at the time was very worried about how such a clinical picture could affect her baby. Shortly after confirming that it was positive for COVID-19, the concern turned into a real alarm and an indescribable anxiety fell on Maidi.
Yesterday, a day before she reached the first two weeks of life, her little Helen García Martínez – the first child born in Cuba to a mother in critical condition due to complications associated with COVID-19 – Maidi told our newspaper that both of us are now in perfect health and this is the work of Cuban medicine, the result of our system’s effort to preserve the health of the human being. “
“After confirming the positive, they decided to transfer me to the Santa Clara Military Hospital, with more experience with pregnant women.
“There they put me in intensive care and it is the most critical period of my illness. They are considering surgery to save my life and face and, in addition, to perform independent treatments. I was in critical condition, but the multidisciplinary group that decided to perform a cesarean section did the miracle.
The young woman thanks the obstetricians, intensivists, anesthetists, neonatologists, nurses, technicians, all those who did what was necessary for the survival of both.
He states that, “in addition to the surgical procedure, the treatment, the supply of these drugs that we did not lack, was essential, despite the atrocious economic blockade of the US government against Cuba and, in particular, against its public health.”
After the caesarean section, Maidi felt much better, especially at the respiratory level. “The girl, although she was premature, evolved very well. After the operation, they continued to apply my treatment protocols until, without illness, I met my daughter on March 8 and started breastfeeding.
«The head of the Cienfuegos Neonatology Service went to look for us at the Santa Clara maternal hospital and, from there, he explained to me that a month later my Helen will have a consultation and, from there, all the permanent medical care she has, free of charge. , on the children of Cuba ».
Maidi, a young Interior Ministry officer who lives with her husband Yudiel and son Yerson, is happy to look at Helen, a pink woman who is constantly searching for her breasts, to feed the life saved by Cuban medicine. of her and her mother.
Maidi says she would love for her daughter to be a doctor one day, “to do for others what they have done for us now.”