Cuba's infant mortality rate better than Florida's!

Havana, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) Cuba reached a record low in infant and maternal mortality rates in 2013, according to official figures released today by Granma newspaper. Regarding infant mortality,

Cuba recorded a rate of 4.2 per thousand live births, and eight provinces were below the national rate.

Such territories are Sancti Spiritus and Granma, both with 3.2, Holguin (3.3), Havana and Ciego de Ávila (3.4), Pinar del Rio and Villa Clara (3.9) and Las Tunas (4.0), reported the journal, adding that the municipality of Isla de la Juventud had 2.0.

Of the country’s 168 municipalities, 22 had no child dead.

Granma explained that the main causes of the death of children under one year old are mainly perinatal conditions, congenital abnormalities and infections.

This time 45 children less than in 2012 died from congenital malformations, which keeps Cuba among the countries with the lowest infant mortality from this cause. According to preliminary data provided by the National Board of Medical Records and Statistics of the Ministry of Public Health, last year there were 125,830 births, 156 more than in 2012.

Granma newspaper said that Cuba also strengthens the results of the program aimed at reducing complications and maternal deaths, reporting only 26 deaths directly related to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.

In this regard, Cuba achieved a direct maternal mortality rate of 20.7 per 100,000 live births, the lowest in the countryâ�Ös history.

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TALLAHASSEE – Florida’s infant mortality rate is at an all-time low.
State health officials credit improved prenatal and infant health care for the good news.
The infant mortality rate dropped from 6.4 out of every 1,000 live births in 2011 to 6 in 2012.

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