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FROM
CUBA
Mother charges negligence in prisoner's
death
HAVANA, Cuba - June 19 (Ahmed Rodríguez
Albacia, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org)
- The mother of a 41-year-old prisoner who
died recently charged authorities with negligence
in rendering timely medical care to her
son.
Teresa Landrian Figuera said she was
told by hospital doctors that if her son
had received timely attention, his life
would have been saved.
Her son, Eriberto Hernandez Landrian died
at the Miguel Enrique hospital, where he
had been taken from the Combinado del Este
prison. His mother said he had been requesting
medical attention since he started feeling
poorly five months ago and prison authorities
didn't pay attention to him.
When he was finally taken to hospital,
Hernandez was found to suffer from liver
and digestive ailments and to have pneumonia.
Hernandez' mother charges that prison authorities
didn't seek medical attention until her
son started vomiting blood.
Five days later he was dead.
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