Photo: Leandro Pérez Pérez/Adelante/ArchivePhoto: Leandro Pérez Pérez/Adelante/ArchiveCAMAGÜEY. - From beginnings of the year until middle of September, Camagüey was exhibiting an infant mortality rate of only 2.7 for every 1 000 born alive, the lowest of the history in this period. These numbers answer to four deceased less compared to equal stage of 2017, result that demonstrates the stability in the Mother-Child Attention Program (PAMI).

The municipalities of Najasa, Jimaguayú, Nuevitas and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes were still without losses of life in one-year-old minors. Vertientes, Florida and Camagüey showed indicators according to the provincial average, while the remaining ones were overcoming it, in accordance with the information offered by the Dr. Ivette Alice Prince Martínez, chief of the section of the PAMI in the provincial direction of Public Health.

Also the specialist of Second degree in Pediatrics, Intensive Cares and Emergency and Master's degree in Infectious Illnesses, there recounted the benefit brought in children admitted the ward of intensive therapy of the pediatric hospital Eduardo Agramonte Piña due to the acquisition of the team for the oxygenation of high flow, which contributes humid and warm utility oxygen before the respiratory insufficiency in small children, as in the bronchiolitis. The technique is also used in other similar sufferings because it prevents the illness from progressing towards symptoms that are more serious.

Ivette mentioned, among other key aspects, the need not to neglect the abortion and its consequences, the pre-conception risk and the suitable pursuit to the pregnant women with arterial hypertension. In these determinations the Primary Health care (APS) turns out to be vital, with its doctors and nurses of the family, what, undoubtedly, influences the arrival of the pregnant woman to the work of childbearing of a correct way, with the benefit waited in the newborn baby.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez