Incarcerated in a Hospital in Cuba: when Light Is a Matter of Life or Death

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No one imagines that Jeisel Hernández is going to die tonight, at five years old, away from home. At about five o’clock in the morning on December 10, a terrifying cry begins to be heard, a chorus of stunned voices around the progressive care room of Pepe Portilla Paediatric Hospital in Pinar del Río. In one of the rooms, Yarisleidy Ramos and Alianys Labrador, mothers of two girls admitted, wake up from the scare. Something happens. They come ou…