The consecration, organization of work, dedication, the dedication of doctors and paramedics, together with the political will of the State in the care of the human being, constitute determining factors for Ciego de Ávila to exhibit the lowest infant mortality in the country, with 2 .3 deaths for every thousand children under one year of age born alive.

Dr. Belkis Pérez Falcón, a first-degree specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine and head of the section of the Maternal and Child Program in the province, commented that the deaths are reported in the municipality of Baraguá and another in Morón, the place of origin of an infant who he was treated at Ciro Redondo; the remaining eight municipalities maintain the rate at zero.

Beyond the figures —below, even, that of many countries of the so-called first world— this result crowns the commitment of several years of work in the Maternal and Child Program (PAMI), in which Ciego de Ávila has not always shown good results, to the point that in 2021 it registered the highest rate in Cuba, with 13.7 deaths.

The strength in most of the subprograms of the National Program for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Genetic Diseases and Congenital Defects stands out here, among them the screening of Alpha-fetoprotein and the ultrasound of the first trimester for all pregnant women.

Pérez Falcón said that the achievement is also the cause of the strengthening achieved in primary care by completing the doctors and nurses of the Basic Work Group (GBT) in the health areas, an aspect that he classified as vital, coupled with the work of the nine maternity homes in the province —only missing in the municipalities of Primero de Enero, Bolivia and Florencia—, where 115 of the 1,644 existing pregnant women in Ciego de Ávila are hospitalized.

In the same way, she explained, in the emerging plan to improve the indicators of the program is the classification with a red code of pregnant women at risk of prematurity, almost always associated with mothers with toxic habits or who become pregnant in adolescence, and other causes such as anemia, high blood pressure, cervicovaginal infection and multiple pregnancies.

The territories with the best performance in the PAMI are Chambas, Morón, and Ciro Redondo, while Baraguá, Venezuela and Bolivia should strengthen the work.