INFANT MORTALITY RATE

Cuba ended 2014 with a rate of 4.2 per thousand live births, so that the country remains with the lowest infant mortality rate in its history, Granma newspaper reported.»

With an infant mortality rate (IMR) of 3,5 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2014, Sancti Spiritus is once again placed among the Cuban provinces with best results in this important health indicator.»

In Cuba, everyone has a family doctor, health services are absolutely free, and authorization to access them is unnecessary, says an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine.»

When only one year ago Sancti Spiritus province closed 2011 with one of the highest infant mortality rates in Cuba, 5.9 deaths per thousand live births, not even local authorities in charge of reversing this situation could have calculated that twelve months later the territory would halve that figure and become a reference for the entire nation.»

Cuba ended 2012 with an infant mortality rate of 4.6 percent per 1,000 live births, the lowest rate of America, according to the local press.»

With a work that focuses on the care of the mother and the child,  Sancti Spiritus achieves an infant mortality rate of 2.9 per 1,000 live births, among the lowest in Cuba.»

The infant mortality rate for children under five fell for Latin America and the Caribbean from 54 to 23 deaths per 1,000 live births over the last 10 years, a PAHO/WHO report says.»

Cuba reported a reduction of its infant mortality rate to 4.5 deaths in every live births so far this year.»

Encouraging news have been known in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus: infant mortality rate has been dropped to 3.7 per 1,000 live births.»

Cuba has reported so far this year an infant mortality rate of 4.3 percent per 1,000 live births, lower than the 4.9 percent registered in 2011, when it reached the lowest level in the region, sources from the sector said on Monday.»