The province of Holguín, with the largest maternity hospital in Cuba at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital, closed the year 2024 with an infant mortality rate of 5.31 per thousand live births, a figure that places this indicator among the lowest in the country.
Topics related to the therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine (MNT) approved in Cuba and research developed to contribute to raising the quality of life of the population, occupied the attention of professionals attending the IX Scientific Conference of the Chapter of Bioenergetic and Natural Medicine, held on Wednesday in the city of Holguín.
The maternity ward of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Teaching University Hospital in the province of Holguín is strengthening ties with the health area, with the aim of reducing the rates of prematurity and low birth weight in the eastern territory.
A few days before closing 2024, there is the consensus that this has been one of the most dificult years of all those experienced in recent times.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other senior leaders today congratulated doctors from the region and the country on the occasion of Latin American Medicine Day.