Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey, Jan. 30 – The Maternal and Child Health Program (PAMI, by its Spanish acronym) is a priority task in the family doctor-and-nurse offices of Santa Cruz del Sur, where care is provided to pregnant women and children from zero to five years of age, as part of the essential work carried out from the primary care level of the Public Health system.
The report presented on PAMI during the Twenty-fifth Regular Session of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power, corresponding to the Eighteenth Term of Office, revealed that by the end of the previous calendar year, 281 births were reported, with four deaths of children under one year of age, resulting in an infant mortality rate of 14.2 percent.
The work of the Basic Working Groups (GBT, for its acronym in Spanish), physicians specializing in Comprehensive General Medicine (MGI, by its Spanish acronym), and nursing staff in the four Health areas available is systematic for the 118 pregnant women—including adolescents—and the more than 100 infants.
To maintain a high-quality service and follow-up for the Maternal and Child Health Program in Santa Cruz del Sur, the municipality has the comfortable Maternal Home in the main city and an obstetrics ward at the José EspiridónSantiestebanBáez Hospital, where the work of specialists in the field contributes to the efficient care of pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborns. (Text and photo: Raúl Reyes Rodríguez/Radio Santa Cruz)
