Cuba Child Death Lowest
in Latin America
Cuba reported Latin
America's lowest infant
mortality rate in 2007,
with 5.3 children under
one year dead out of
every 1,000 live births,
official sources
revealed Friday.
That figure is similar
to those reported by
industrialized nations
such as Canada, and even
lower than that of the
US, where the black
population is less
privileged than the
white one.
According to the UN
Report on the State of
the World's Children
2007, the world infant
mortality rate was 52
deaths for each 1,000
live births, and Latin
America's 26. In western
Africa, the figure was
108.
Based on statistics of
the Mother-Child Care
Program by the Cuban
Public Health Ministry,
Granma daily reported
that six of the 14 Cuban
provinces were below the
national average,
including Sancti
Spiritus with 4.1, and
Camaguey with 4.2. In
addition, 21
municipalities
registered zero infant
mortality rate, the
daily added.
The establishment of a
free health care system
for the entire
population since the
triumph to the
Revolution on January 1,
1959 has allowed the low
levels of child-mother
mortality rate.
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