[NYTr] Cuban Hospital in Holguin Achieves Nation's Lowest Infant Mortality Rate

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Cuban Hospital Records Country's Lowest Infant Mortality Rate

Holguin, Jan 8 (acn) Holguin's Vladimir Ilich Lenin General Hospital, 
recorded both the highest number of deliveries in Cuba, and the lowest 
infant mortality rate of its history by the end of 2007 with 2.1 deaths 
per 1,000 live births.

For the fifth consecutive year, the medical facility recorded the 
lowest rate nation wide.

Over the latest 12 months, nearly 7,000 babies were born in the Lenin 
hospital, where one third of the current population of the eastern 
province of Holguin has been born. Most of them were delivered in a 
natural way as a result of specialized care to pregnant women and in 
particular to those at risk.

The Lenin Hospital was founded by Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1965; 
ever since, the medical staff has been working to prevent the main 
causes of infant mortality in the territory such as low weight at 
birth, congenital anomalies, perinatal conditions and infections.

As part of the province's health care system, other medical centers 
support the Infant-Maternity Care Program, such as the clinic for the 
prevention of Low Weight at Birth.

The Infant Mortality Rate in Holguin is below the national average of
5.3.