The Baptist church in Alfa & Omega de Dénia launched a campaign to collect medicines and medical supplies for Cuba after learning of the difficult and worrying situation in which they were. A gynecologist tells the members of this Dianense church that she does not have "latex gloves to do the examinations, there are no medications, or vitamins for pregnant women." Everything becomes uphill every time you visit.
From the medical team of the Santo Suárez Evangelical Baptist Church in Havana, he explains that every day they are
living in their health centers, in their consultations, in their visits to their neighbors at home, the impotence of not being able to go further, of not being able to fulfill their call and see opportunities for so many people taken away.
They also lack oxygen, either to treat the pneumonia generated by Covid or for interventions, which end up being postponed or worse, in the death of the patient. As indicated by the Baptist church in Alfa & Omega de Dénia, in Cuba "you cannot prescribe treatments because there is no where to get them, they do not even have paracetamol or analgesics to alleviate painful conditions of any kind. They need antipyretics, even for children, antibiotics , COVID treatments, and we can continue on a list as endless as the queues they have to do to get some chicken or soap or ... the days the truck arrives. There really is nothing, and
medical supplies are scarce. Nothing can be more desperate for a healthcare professional, nothing more tragic for families, nothing more sad for this humanity that allows so much unjustified pain. "
The opening by Cuba allowing the entry of medicines, food and hygiene material has launched the possibility of bringing much-needed help. For this reason, through the brothers of the Baptist Church in Havana, through Pastor Daniel González, they set out to look for alternatives, to move, in order to help the population in these times that, for many, are considered equal. or worse than those experienced in the special period (back in the 90s, when the socialist bloc fell, leaving Cuba plunged into bankruptcy).
Thus came the call to Dénia. With the help of friends and the Baptist church in Alfa & Omega de Dénia, they set out to help them. First they made an exploratory trip where they assessed the real possibilities, as well as the real difficulties to be able to carry all the possible material.
In this way, they packed more than 300 kilograms of aid. The entrance was not easy because the airline was saturated by the luggage of the passengers, but finally the vast majority arrived (only one suitcase is still in "search and capture"), most of them medicines.
The aid was deposited there, in one of the classes in the Church's premises in Santo Suárez, arranged on shelves that saw tears, many tears. Those spilled by a marriage of stomatologists, knowing that they could supply paracetamol to their patients. Also those of the psychiatrist, who was finally going to treat her
chronic patients in treatments in a manner and at the right time. Tears of satisfaction when seeing antibiotic, coronary, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, ophthalmological, anticancer treatments… as well as medical supplies, masks, gels, heart rate monitors, food and hygiene supplies.
The testimonies of these health professionals were shocking, but as often happens every time we travel to Cuba, from the Alfa & Omega Church of Dénia they received a lot, from a strong people and a church in continuous growth, which already reaches 10% of evangelical Christians in the population. A welcoming church, where people feel loved, cared for, protected despite difficulties. A church that I don't know
it encloses, but is present, close, passionate, and proclaims Jesus with a true and unique testimony, so necessary in these times.
The Baptist Church of Dénia has always shared, visited and supported in different ways missions, social, sports, educational projects ... and they point out that this time in Havana has been really intense, "it has been very full of obstacles that we have had to jump every day, and on multiple occasions, but we have returned full of gratitude, and, despite the terrible situation, full of hope because there is a people that faces the difficulty but full of hope. Dozens of people have returned us home with a enormous THANKS to the donors and all those who from our country have offered and collaborated with this precious and necessary project ".
Sad situation in Cuba but what about your government? Good for the donations and each one donates where they want but that a country delegates its obligations towards its population in the humanitarian aid of others is not the solution. Sad.