Thanks to the reader who sent the link to this Cuban News Agency report: Cuban Teen Thanks Doctors for Recovery from A (H1N1). Excerpt:
A 13-year-old girl, Claudia Nery Toro Conde, thanked the doctors that treated her after catching the influenza A (H1N1), as well as her parents and professors, who played an important role in her fast recovery.
Her teachers became aware of the possible disease at the school when the teen referred about having a headache and a sore throat, besides high fever and her nose was running constantly.
Right away she was suspended from school and her parents were informed on the situation, while the family doctor and the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Children Hospital provided specialized advises on how to deal with the case.
Claudia was home-hospitalized for 15 days after a throat exudates performed on her confirmed the disease. “The medical attention was very good, the family doctor and the nurse were coming every day to my house to find out how I was doing”, recalls Claudia.
Her mother, Barbara, told ACN news agency about the measures they took at home, such as keeping the house clean, washing sheets and clothes on daily basis, while preventing people from coming in and the girl coming out, in order to avoid the influenza to spread.
Barbara thanked the Cuban revolution for the doctors’ care, who visited them every afternoon, as well as the teachers; and all that without having to pay a dime.
