A Cuban family is asking for help so that Sofía, a six-year-old girl diagnosed with myeloid leukemia, receives a parole humanitarian aid to travel to the United States to receive specialized medical treatment.
According to the media Telemundo 51the youngest started with what seemed to be an innocent cold, but this soon turned into a nightmare for her family, as doctors in Cuba diagnosed her with this type of cancer.
The disease that affects the minor affects the cells in the bone marrow, and usually manifests itself as an abnormal growth of immature white blood cells in the blood.
The only hope her family has is that the minor will be treated at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, where specialists are prepared to carry out the treatment and a bone marrow transplant, something that cannot be done in the self-proclaimed medical powerhouse.
According to Dr. Guillermo de Angulo, pediatric oncologist at said medical center, although the disease is aggressive, there is a good chance of curing it if we act quickly.
Now, the little girl’s family is pleading for a sponsor in the US to help them financially to facilitate the process of obtaining a parole humanitarian.
Lawyer Gladys Carredeguas, who specializes in immigration, indicated to the aforementioned media that there are special categories to facilitate this process for people who urgently need medical treatment.
Official figures indicate that, until March of this year, some 86,000 people from Cuba had managed to enter the United States with the help of the parole humanitarian, which had benefited 404,000 people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti.
This is not the first time that a Cuban family has seen the need to leave the country to care for the illnesses of one of their loved ones, since the Island is experiencing a shortage of medicines and supplies in hospitals that make it almost impossible to care for cases. more difficult.
At the end of March, Cuban Eidys Pérez Barrera went to social networks to publicize her case, She was diagnosed with stage four diffuse large B-cell “Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma”, a condition that has rapidly deteriorated her health..
The woman, mother of two small children, points out that she had already undergone 14 cycles of chemotherapy, but these could not eliminate the disease, so she now wanted to try her luck abroad, where there were treatments that were not available in the Major. of the Antilles.
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