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FROM
CUBA
Eight newborns died in June in Havana hospital
HAVANA, Cuba - July 20 (José Antonio
Fornaris, Cuba Verdad / www.cubanet.org)
- Eight newborns died during the month of
June in the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital
in Havana.
Hospital employees suggested the cause
was bacterial contamination, but there was
no official confirmation.
At present, several hospital facilities,
including operating rooms and neonatal intensive
care wards are closed and are only available
for emergency Caesarean sections.
The hospital director has since been replaced
by another doctor coming from the América
Arias maternity hospital in the Vedado district.
The Cuban government routinely asserts
that the country's infant mortality rate
is low. It touts the index as one of the
accomplishments of the Communist regime.
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