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December 5, 2002



FROM CUBA

Patient dies for lack of oxygen mask

HAVANA, Dec. 4 (Victor M. Dominguez, Lux Info Press/www.cubanet.org) – An injured worker named Daniel Ballester Fernández, 41, died in a hospital because there was no oxygen mask for him to use, according to human rights defender Cesar Roman in Holguin province.

Ballester’s widow, Damaris Lovaina Oropesa, said her husband was injured during a power blackout and was taken by co-workers to the Vladimir Illich Lenin Hospital.

He was operated on for a hip injury but later had trouble breathing and developed a fever. Unable to speak, Ballester made signs at the doctors who understood he was having trouble breathing. There was no oxygen mask available and the patient died within half an hour.


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