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My name is Isbel and I live in the province of Pinar del Río, the westernmost in Cuba, some call it Cinderella, I'm not quite sure why, I think it's because of cartoons or a movie with the same name, Cinderella is synonymous with hard work and sacrifice, we Pinareños go through a little work too, a little more than the rest of the provinces, hence the referred nickname.

It is no secret to anyone that after the times of pandemic caused by Covid 19, the situation in our country has worsened in all possible ways and areas, an aspect that has made the Cuban's life more difficult.

Health has been one of the most affected sectors from my point of view and it is noticed more because a few years ago we were very strong in this area or at least, the minimum attention and conditions were counted in our hospitals and polyclinics for primary care, speaking as the good Cuban (I am not a doctor), you solved the problems you had and the medicines you needed you found them with some ease in the pharmacy.

A few months ago, maybe a year, I started having problems with two teeth (one that lost the filling and the other for an unknown pain), so I had to go to the Clínica Estomatológica Docente Ormani Arenado here in the provincial capital, of reference for many and also, the closest at that time.

Source: Photo of the Clinica Estomatológica Docente Ormani Arenado

They attended me for emergency, the attention was good from the reception and the doctor who attended me did it with total professionalism, but with great pain she told me: we have no filling, it is not entering, I can only put a band-aid on you, fortunately I left there without pain, satisfied, but as it is logical when they put a band-aid on you it does not last long.

It had not been two weeks when I was back and I tell you that the experience was not the same, after referring that there was no water to attend me, I had to go to Pedro Borrás, another polyclinic in my province with the body of guard of Stomatology, this time another doctor with different characteristics sprayed me mixture of cure all over the mouth and it had not been the weekend when I already had no protection, her words were simple: if you buy or get the fillings maybe you can put them on! Without words!

This situation was prolonged and the clinics and polyclinics in the municipality (I went through all of them) still do not have resources of this type and if they enter they do not reach everyone, and it is that there are already many of us with the same needs, ... will it be ...? What I can assure you is that both pieces that were salvageable were no longer in good condition.

Source: Hermanos Cruz Teaching Polyclinic

Recently I had to go to the emergency room of the Hermanos Cruz Teaching Polyclinic (to which I belong) because I had an abscess in one of them and as expected, there was no solution, I had to extract both, but there were no gauze or gauze, no antibiotic either.

There I debated: how to solve the problem that was not small? I had two teeth with problems, one on each side, which prevented me from eating, due to discomfort and pain, I had to look for alternatives with friends and acquaintances and little by little I found what I needed, how good it is to have friends!

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They managed to get me a tooth, with a happy ending, I recovered quickly and the other after making me spend the worst day of my life in terms of physical pain, a new and good friend helped me with an extraction that turned out to be from movies, fortunately she is an excellent professional, from the best, but without resources everything can be complex, a dental chair without water, if compressor and without drill, a little complex, everything manual and a tooth hugged to the bone so that they would never take it out of there.

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Thanks to the expertise of this professional, after many minutes, everything was a success, I am already at home recovering and taking measures to be well, with a little pain but it is normal for the manipulation.

Nothing friends, trying to vent. Better times will come where we have a little more life.

Thanks for reading and getting this far. Greetings.

Texto: original, de la autoría de @ibcabrera/Text: original, by @ibcabrera

Translated and formatted with Hive Translator by @noakmilo.