Holguín with the third lowest infant mortality rate in Cuba
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
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Holguín closed 2023 with the third lowest infant mortality rate in the country, achieving 4.7 per thousand live births, according to preliminary data.
The municipalities of Antilla and “Calixto García” reported zero mortality last year, while seven Holguín municiplaities kept this indicator lower than the provincial rate: Gibara (1.82), Sagua de Tánamo (2.07), Báguanos (2 .08), Mayarí (2.84), Holguín (3.92), “Frank País” (3.98) and “Rafael Freyre” (4.31).
The province reached 8,877 births, 202 less compared to 2022 and according to directors of the Maternal and Child Care Program (Pami), the months of August, September and November recorded the highest birth rate.
In one of the most complex years experienced in the country, due to the economic situation created by the strengthening of the U.S. blockade against the island, it is a feat to have ended 2023 with a rate of 4.7 for every thousand live births, in one of the most populated provinces of Cuba.
The recognition goes to those involved in the Maternal and Child Care Program in the territory including doctors, nurses and other health care personnel of the 14 municipalities and the provincial hospitals, especially the “Vladimir Ilich Lenin”, where 6 thousand 749 children were born, with an infant mortality rate of 2.7.
