The evaluation of the main indicators of the PAMI in the year 2021, which with respect to 2020 reports worrying figures such as the decrease in 52 births, focused the debates of the second ordinary meeting of September of the Council of the Municipal Administration of Guantanamo this Wednesday.
The meeting, which was held at the headquarters of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power (AMPP), was chaired by the First Secretary of the PCC in Guantánamo, Yucleydys Ramírez Ramírez, the President of the AMPP in Guantánamo, Henry Rodríguez Terrero, Mayor Rolando Cantillo and the Coordinator of the Provincial Council, Donna Baños.
Regarding the PAMI, Idalberto Creach Bandera, Member of the CAM and Municipal Director of Public Health, explained that the municipality's Infant Mortality closed December 2021 with a rate of 5.90. The causes are related to perinatal conditions, congenital anomalies, low birth weight and other causes that are studied and strategies to eradicate are outlined.
The Maternal Death rate in 2021 was zero, however, there are still deficiencies that must be overcome, in terms of training and specialization of human resources, family support to ensure that adolescent pregnancies do not occur and that pregnant women meet the requirements for a happy pregnancy.
The Health Directorate works on research projects that address the main problems of the PAMI, controls the conduct of hearings in secondary schools, pre-university schools, universities, pedagogical schools, related to the prevention of teenage pregnancy, contraception, planning family and risks of abortion and increase the use of web pages, social networks and media for the dissemination of information and actions carried out in the Maternal and Child Program.
The second meeting of the CAM also discussed the proposal to commercialize the basic telephone service in the residential sector, and the rates to be charged per square meter, applicable to self-employed workers and other forms of non-state management, for the lease of real estate, premises or spaces belonging to entities of local subordination.
The approaches of the population on problems that affect the municipality were checked, classified and reviewed; Housing procedures that were lagging were evaluated and it was analyzed how, through a local development project, a solution will be given to pending solutions regarding the execution of two stops for the benefit of the town.
Likewise, the allocation of a crib was evaluated in the case of 49 pregnant women who are at term and do not have it; linking to community kitchens in the case of pregnant women in a vulnerable situation, and actions for the timely admission of pregnant women at risk were addressed.
Dairon Martínez Tejeda