• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 11 / 16 / 2011

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Ciego de Ávila fulfilled its goal of reducing infant mortality rate compared with last year. Registering a figure of 4.3 deaths per thousand live births, the rate was five tenths compared with that obtained in 2010.

Ernesto Salcedo, director of the Provincial Health Promotion and Education for Health, told reporters that the rate-meter social development of a nation was zero in the municipalities of Bolivia, and Majagua Baraguá, while there were no maternal deaths throughout the country.

Venegas Maray Dr. Lobato, a specialist in pediatrics at the Provincial Health Department, said the results of the program maternal and child care are due to the monitoring carried out systematically in each locality and multisectoral work.

He said that visits to hospitals, clinics and homes served to reevaluate women over 24 weeks of pregnancy, as well as inquiries to infants, older children, pregnant and postpartum women.

Controls, he added, were effective for early detection of respiratory disease, nonspecific febrile illness or other risk factors that could compromise the health of patients.

Venegas Lobato stressed the contribution of maternity homes, with the incorporation of women with these risks for birth, who are given a differentiated care, to protect them and the unborn babies.

From January to October, there were four thousand 426 births in the province Ciego de Avila, 319 above those recorded in similar period last year.

Danay Alonso, recently subjected to a cesarean delivery in the hospital Luaces Iraola Antonio, said the attention given to her and her child for medical and paramedical staff.

From 2008 to date, Ciego de Avila expanded and remodeled two teaching general hospitals, 10 clinics and other healthcare settings, with an investment of 30 million pesos, a fact which is reversed in the quality of medical care.