How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and diseases of the poor - To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1000 live births in one of the poorest regions of the island to none in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat
, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of Pigs, where the US attempted to overthrow the Cuban revolution in 1961. Down a modest street in a small building with a Cuban flag and a large picture ofIn fact, that is an inaccurate sentence. La Rosa, like most primary care doctors in Cuba, lives above the clinic that she runs. “I became a doctor,” she told us as we sat in the clinic’s waiting room, “because I wanted to make the world a better place.
“The last time an infant died,” she said, “was in 2008 when a child was born prematurely and had great difficulty breathing.” When we asked her how she remembered that death with such clarity, she said that for her as a doctor any death is terrible, but the death of a child must be avoided at all costs. “I wish I did not have to experience that,” she said.
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