85-year-old patient faces bedbug infestation at Camagüey hospital

An 85-year-old lung cancer patient is having difficulty resting at night at the Manuel Ascunce Domenech provincial hospital in Camagüey, where bedbugs were reported in the bed she occupies. The woman, identified as Faustina Pérez Castellanos, is hospitalized in the Internal Medicine ward. The case describes an interruption to her rest while she receives care for a malignant lung disease.

Pérez Castellanos is in cubicle five, bed 30, and requires continuous oxygen therapy, according to information shared about her situation. Her diagnosis and need for oxygen are among the circumstances of her hospitalization, along with the difficulty sleeping. The description locates the problem in a specific area of the Camagüey hospital’s Internal Medicine ward.

The presence of bedbugs in the bed is cited as the reason the patient cannot sleep normally. The situation is especially significant in her case because of her age and the lung disease that led to her hospitalization. The information links the interrupted rest to the conditions where she is hospitalized, without separating that problem from the care she receives.

Images shared on social media by independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada show some of the facility’s conditions. They include a rolled-up mattress that appears deteriorated and damaged wall tiles. The recordings provide a view of furniture and interior spaces associated with the patient’s case.

The images also show clinical-use items, such as instruments or linens, in conditions described as inadequate. Along with the mattress and damaged tiles, those details form the visual record circulated about the hospital. Faustina Pérez Castellanos’s case therefore combines two specific elements: the difficulty sleeping attributed to bedbugs and the condition of the furniture and facilities shown in the recordings.