{"id":52010,"date":"2015-01-05T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52010"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:06","slug":"cuban-province-records-worlds-lowest-infant-mortality-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/cuban-province-records-worlds-lowest-infant-mortality-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Province Records World’s Lowest Infant Mortality Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over\u00a02,000\u00a0health\u00a0specialists\u00a0from\u00a0Cuba\u2019s\u00a0Cienfuegos province participate in 35 international missions around the world.
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The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the country and in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].<\/p>\n

\u201cThe quality of medical care for the children, teenagers and pregnant women is the only way to make this result sustainable,\u201d emphasized Dr. Maritza Rodriguez Gabin, Vice-President of the Provincial Board of Health.<\/p>\n

The province also holds the highest rates of blood, organs and transplant tissues donations of the country, Gabin boasted.<\/p>\n

Over 2,000 health specialists from Cienfuegos collaborate in international missions in 35 countries of the world, including many stationed in West Africa to fight against the spread of the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n

Cuban health professionals abroad provide medical training, contribute to clinical tests, like the vaccines against cholera and the pneumococcal disease.<\/p>\n

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The central province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, ended 2014 with a rate of infant mortality of three deaths per thousand live births, the lowest in the world, local health authorities reported Friday [2 Jan 2015].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}