http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/noviembre/juev13/Children.html
Havana. November 13, 2008
Children are the number one health priority in Cuba
Anneris Ivette Leyva
ONE of the factors that has increased the total of Cuban children
reaching pre-school age to 99% is the systematic labor of the 3,000
pediatricians and 600 neonatal specialists working throughout the country,
according to Fernando DomÃnguez Dieppa, president of the Cuban Pediatrics
Society and organizer of the 26th National Pediatrics Conference that began
yesterday in Havana.
Congenital diseases and cancer are the principal conditions affecting the
remaining percentage of under-fives and for that reason, specialists from this
sector are increasingly concentrating on preventative measures.
To continue reducing, or at least maintaining, the very low infant
mortality rate - 5.3 for every 1,000 live births last year - is one of the
objectives of children's doctors in Cuba, who are meeting to have in-depth
discussions on childhood illnesses and treatment for neonatal and pediatric
patients.
At the opening of the Congress, the participants sent greetings to Fidel,
described by members of the Cuban Pediatrics Society as their historic
president.
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