Several Cuban parents begin a partial hunger strike in the vicinity of the Krome Detention Center West of Miami. The parents were protesting several issues, among them: the living conditions of their children imprisoned by US Immigration Service, the lack of definition of their sentences, and the lack of sensitivity of the US Immigration Service who placed them in facilities very distant from their homes.
The Finlay Medical Society was summoned to see that the lives of the parents who were undergoing the partial hunger strike did not deteriorate. Indeed, the group carried out compatible with the survival. When we were first called in, we found the demonstrators dehydrated and with serious electrolyte imbalances.
In the photographs, Dr. Juan Carlos Pérez-Espinosa takes a medical history from some of the parents. Our electrocardiography technical help, Mrs. Emelia Riveron managed to get current there and obtain excellent tracings of the demonstrators.