The new Room, with equipment donated by the Fund of United Nations for the Childhood (UNICEF), with sights to benefit premature and nursing children, as announced the Teacher Álvarez Fumero, who also informed, that this target will be materialized across the joint program: Apoyo a la lucha contra la anemia en grupos vulnerables, destined to improve the food practices and the nutrition of the children.

The specialist abounded in that to ensure a good beginning of life and health in the newborn babies it is indispensable to receive exclusive breast feeding, from the birth until the first six months, and complement it by the administration of food adapted up to two years and mentioned that the mothers will donate their milk after nursing her babies.

This milk almost always requested by specialists in Neonatology and Pediatric Surgery, first goes through an exquisite process that takes it to the pasteurization to ensure its quality.

Time has prove that the mother who nurses her babies not only influences a suitable feeding and favors its immunity for containing the natural nutrients necessary for the metabolism, with the inclusion of the antibody and up to the water, it also propitiates a major development and emotional intelligence, and reduces the possibility of suffering from breasts cancer.

With that of Camagüey, there already eight banks of breast milk in Cuba, others placed in Guantánamo, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Las Tunas, Pinar del Río and Havana, while, the Teacher Álvarez Fumero announced, that the intention is to open one per year as the Camagüeyan, with equipment of first level to a cost of over 30 000 dollars.

The same way he announced that due to the achievements that exhibits Camagüey, concerning the national mother-child health program, like its valuation of 2.3 lates per 1 000 born, lowest of the country up to date and that contributes, that Cuba is in 4.2, it will be the head office of the national meeting of banks of breast milk, to be celebrated next November.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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