Strengthening PAMI, a priority in Holguín province
- Written by Maribel Flamand Sánchez
- Published in Health
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That the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI) is a priority, but needs a differentiation in the way we are managing it, according to its non-positive results in several of its indicators was one of the reflections shared by Manuel Hernández Aguilera, governor of the province, with the participants in the Provincial Council of People's Power, held on Wednesday at the Holguín Exhibition Center.
Due to its social significance and as an indicator that generates criteria for development and living standard, the work meeting dedicated most of its agenda to the analysis of the progress of PAMI, also affected by the lack of resources, but without taking away in the least the intersectoral priority necessary to maintain at minimum levels and even eradicate maternal deaths, only one in the year, of infants and nursing children, prematurity, low weight and other ailments generally associated with improper care and erroneous behavior of pregnant women.
Holguín maintains its infant mortality rate at 5.72 per thousand live births, lower than the national average, “a factor that cannot lead us to complacency, since a single death must constitute a problem for the province,” said Hernández Aguilera, who indicated to appeal to the dedication of the human resources of the health sector, to science, but also to whatever contributions, from the social and governmental, can be made to strip PAMI of everything that hinders its progress.
According to information from Dr. Julio Yamel Verdecia Reyes, director of Public Health in the province, so far this year births have decreased, while high-risk pregnancies, malnutrition in infants and postpartum women, deaths in children under five years of age and premature births have increased, among other challenges.
For this purpose, it was agreed to open maternity homes in those territories (8) that do not have these care centers, to link productive forms and private and state economic actors to the attention of these facilities, as well as to pregnant women, from the municipal governments to have control of each pregnant woman and the conditions in which they are found to act accordingly, and other actions related to scientific studies and community actions that allow to advance with solutions to the possible problems in this environment.
