HAVANA, December 17 (Amarilis Cortina, Cuba-Verdad) – Caridad Padrón Blanco, 62, underwent an emergency appendectomy five days after doctors misdiagnosed her condition and sent her home.

Padrón initially went to the municipal hospital near her home in Guane, a small town in westernmost Cuba, with acute belly pain and a fever. Doctors there sent her home with some penicillin to take. Five days later, her relatives took her to the "Clínico Quirúrgico" hospital in Havana, where doctors performed an emergency appendectomy.

Padrón’s son, Manuel, said that one of the doctors that saw her at the Havana hospital said: "Who was the idiot who sent her home with penicillin?"

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