Attention to the mother and her baby: life quality

San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba – The Health Directorate and the Mother and Child Care Program work intensively on reducing the low birth weight. Therefore, the most important purpose of evaluation of the program is to reduce this rate to future annual periods or at least prevent increases during the remainder of this year.

The municipality created a prevention strategy after identified the root causes of underweight children at birth. One of these causes is the preterm, in many pregnant conditioned by the increase of blood pressure during pregnancy.

In this case periodic inspections in doctor’s offices and the Nurse Family are made in order to prevent risk factors, pre terms, and in some cases in the maternal home or at home to ensure that pregnancy has reached the end with optimum health for both the mother and the unborn child.

Also includes educational activities in favor of a proposal healthier lifestyle with healthy eating habits, prenatal care.

Also the Municipal Department carries out actions aimed at overcoming the PAMI professionals, with the aim of maintaining the indicators for the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality, among this issues prematurity risks materialize from the behavior in the health areas, intrauterine growth retardation, pre-term birth, the causes of low birth weight, the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and the response to infections in the newborn.