Camagüey, March 14.- The Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI) in the province of Camagüey focuses its work during the current year on improving the problems identified in the territory such as low birth weight of children, prematurity and delayed intrauterine growth.
The PAMI facilitates the knowledge and application of management technologies and bases its foundations on achieving a higher quality of life for both the baby and its mother, to which different techniques, medications and procedures are applied depending on the well-being of the parents and their children.
Likewise, it takes advantage of the advantages of technological innovation, all with the aim of achieving an infant mortality rate below 5.9, the national average.
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Delgado, head of PAMI in the Camagüey territory, assured that today there is a positive trend in the regularity of what is permissible to achieve encouraging results that allow the demarcation to have an infant mortality rate below the established figures.
From Primary Health Care, basic equipment and the basic group are essential that make possible the guarantee of monitoring and control of pregnant women and work for their development until reaching maximum health and quality in care, highlighted Rodríguez Delgado, specialist. First Degree in Integral General Medicine.
As part of the actions, he emphasized the importance of the Responsible Maternity and Paternity Program, which becomes extremely necessary since "pregnancy belongs to the couple, not just the woman."
The father, the specialist emphasized, must participate from the first consultation to receive the required guidance, as well as in the continuity of the pregnancy, which is carried out by the mother, but it is the father's responsibility to take her to the consultations and understand that this process presents risks at a given time that may lead to the need for hospitalization.
As happens in much of the country's life, the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States government against Cuba severely impacts Public Health, from where enormous efforts are made to ensure the essential resources for the sustainability of care for pregnant women on the way to having a new baby.
The health sector through PAMI guarantees, despite objective limitations, the means and places where mothers need to stay at the appropriate time.
During the gestation period, the medical staff also ensures nutritional quality, monitoring and control, and conditions for childbirth so that it is healthy in every sense with the primary support of families. (Text: Dannys Hernández de Luaces/Radio Cadena Agramonte)(Photo: Archive)
