the father of one Cuban young woman in serious condition after a traffic accident in Mexico Last week asks for a a humanitarian visa so that the woman can be treated in hospital in the United Statesreports Telemundo 51.
Ailed Diaz can barely speak. On Sunday, she was put on an oxygen machine after undergoing more than eight hours of surgery to rebuild her spine.
According to Felipe Díaz, the 25yearold girl’s father, she was one of the Passengers of the van that was involved in an accident on Tuesday, March 15, on a Veracruz highway while transporting undocumented migrants.
“I only remember riding in the seat and nothing else until I woke up in the hospital,” says Díaz from a hospital room where he is after the accident.
At least three people died in the incident and more than a dozen were injured.
“She’s got it in her head to come because she says everyone is coming, but I told her it’s very dangerous and she told me she couldn’t take it anymore that she had to go , and I told her let’s do it“Tells Felipe Diaz. Through tears, he says his daughter “had a very bad spinal cord injury that is pressing on the spinal cord.”
“I went out on March first with the intention of meeting my father, but it happened‘ says Ailed Díaz from a hospital bed.
Her father, a Houston resident, traveled to Mexico to accompany his daughter, but doctors at the hospital where she is staying do not offer a good prognosis.according to Telemundo 51.
“He can’t breathe, they put a catheter in him after the operation and now they’re going to empty his lungs because they’re filling him with fluids,” he says.
Ailed Díaz, who was diagnosed with closed chest trauma and contused lungs, is considered a patient in a very serious condition and at high risk of complications. According to Diaz’s father, Doctors recommend moving her to the United Statesbecause they do not have the necessary treatment for their recovery.
“I am requesting a humanitarian visa so that she can enter the US for treatment in the largest country in the world to see if I can save my daughtersays the girl’s father.
On Friday, Cuban authorities said they are taking steps to provide medical care and support to the injured who remain hospitalized after the traffic accident in Mexico. They also touted efforts for that Transfer to Cuba of the remains of the deceased, a woman, a man and a child, whose identities have not been released.
Cuba is facing an unprecedented wave of migration so far this century since the regime reopened airports to commercial flights in November. The most demanded destination is Nicaragua, which relieves the island’s residents of the need for a visa to enter this country. Many then travel from the Central American country to the southern border of the United States.
The entry of Cubans in an irregular situation to the United States recorded a record 16,657 citizens of the island last month of February, most of border areas with Mexico. According to a report by the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) In the first five months of fiscal year 2022, which began in October, a total of 47,431 Cuban emigrants entered through border crossings.
On Monday, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) reported that he repatriated 44 Cuban rafters intercepted in three different eventson Wednesday and Thursday of the last week.