CAMAGÜEY.- To undergo a trans- esophageal echocardiogram more precise and trustworthy in the diagnosis of complaints of the heart, the Camagüey´s citizens must move now up to the province of Villa Clara, since the team of Philips brand with this functionality succumbed to so many years of use.

Without possibility of acquisition of spare parts since in 2009 the subsidiary North American Philips Electronics of North America Corporation was fined in accordance with the restrictions of the blockade of the government of the United States against Cuba, the ultrasound device kept working thanks to the inventiveness of the specialists in Electro-medicine.

It was active from 2007 and it did not answer any more to these efforts, told to the Cuban Agency of News the doctor Ángel Miranda Fragoso, chief of Cardiology of the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech of the province, who suffers the powerlessness of seeing how this politics affects the service that he directs.

Close to 40 Camagüey´s citizens are in waiting-list to undergo surgery in Cardio center Ernesto Che Guevara, in city of Santa Clara, for lack of resources as the specific mechanical valves for bothered of valve pathologies, which can lead to the death if they are not treated on time, added the specialist.

For the restrictions of the economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba, it is necessary to buy them on distant markets and at higher prices, for the risk of sanctions assumed by the companies on having sold them to our country, there illustrated the physician, to whom the love for his work makes him feel every case from a personal point of view.

The responsibility of deciding who undergoes surgery before and who stays to the waiting, based on the condition of his pathology is very hard, since they all are human beings who leave a trace in our hearts, the young doctor recounted.

As the report of Cuba recounts against the blockade corresponding to 2018, that it will appear soon, as every year, in the General Assembly of the United Nations, on April 5th, 2018 requested the company Cook Medical the buy of different inputs.

Cardiac valves, like the described ones by Miranda, appear in the list of requests, refused by Cook Medical on having alluded that its products are not available for its sale or distribution on the Cuban market.

To more than 134 thousand 499 million 800 thousand dollars is anticipated that the quantifiable total of the blockade against Cuba increases, in addition to the incalculable human cost during almost six decades of validity of this politics.