Florida, Nov. 14 – The municipality of Florida is working tirelessly to conclude the current year with the lowest possible rate of maternal and infant mortality, after a period full of threats against this significant program of the Public Health sector, to which different socioeconomic, political and mass actors of the territory also contribute.
With a rate, to date, of 6.1 per 1,000 live births in children under one year of age, the medical assistance system and the rest of the Floridian authorities maintain a strict vigilance on the development of pregnancy and systematically supervise the living conditions, feeding and care of pregnant women, postpartum women and infants in this Camagüey area.
Institutions such as the Maternal Home, the Manuel Piti Fajardo Municipal Hospital and the Leopoldo Rey Sampayo Pediatric Hospital are basic pillars in the defense of the survival of the mother and the baby, with the essential support of the family doctor and nurse in the first trench of combat for the quality of life and well-being of both beings.
Up to the statistical closing of last Monday, November 11, a total of 223 newborns were welcomed in Florida, which meant the greatest amount of happiness for 99 percent of the families who were expecting this gift in the current stage.
