SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – A younger girl got here to South Florida from Cuba in hopes of getting some lifesaving treatment, the place a lawmaker stepped in to lend a serving to hand.
Six-year-old Vanessa Alfonso lupianez is combating an enormous battle after she was recognized with most cancers in 2021. She was inside a hospital in her residence nation of Cuba, the place her mom advised 7News she wouldn’t have survived for much longer.
“She needs medicine to survive, but they don’t have it and they don’t let you bring it. It’s hard because you say, ‘I’m going to lose my daughter,” stated Lupianez’s mom, Jennifer.
Her dad and mom say docs in Cuba had been simply merely not outfitted to care for his or her daughter. Lupianez and her mom Jennifer, had been additionally advised they needed to be remoted for over 70 days, even from their very own household.
“I couldn’t see my son or my husband, and she couldn’t see her brother or her father,” stated Jennifer.
As her daughter bought seemingly worse, docs eliminated one among her kidneys, however the most cancers had unfold. It was powerful her mother stated, and that’s when Vanessa’s grandfather who lives in South Florida determined to step in.
He reached out to Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar in hopes of bringing his granddaughter to South Florida for the treatment she desperately wanted.
“That’s why I’m a congresswoman,” stated Salazar.
Representative Salazar stated after months of labor, she was capable of assist get Lupianez and her complete household humanitarian parole.
“We fought and we fought and we fought, and I want to be extremely grateful to the public servants in the state department and homeland security. Everyone that I called personally, begging them please to give this child another opportunity,” stated Salazar.
All 4 of them arrived in Miami simply final week. Lupianez will likely be handled at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.
She only recently underwent varied exams there, as they work to find out the most effective path ahead. For now, Jennifer stated she’s grateful to the congresswoman and grateful her daughter now has a combating probability.
“It’s an opportunity for life for our daughter,” stated Jennifer.
Lupianez is anticipated to start her treatment at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital very quickly.
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