Cuba reaches lowest infant mortality rate in its history - four per 1,000 live births.
Havana, January 2, 2018. Maintaining infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live for the 10th consecutive year is reason enough for Cuba to celebrate.
But even more extraordinary is that the country has achieved the lowest rate in its history in 2017, four per 1,000 live births
Preliminary data, made available to Granma by the Medical Records and Health Statistics Directorate, indicates that 114,980 births took place, 1,892 less than in 2016, and 465 babies under a year of age died, 32 less than in 2016, the lowest number on record.
Cuba: Health indicators improve and life expectancy increases
Havna, December 29, 2017. “Behind each number, statistic, are lives saved, the quality of life, happiness and satisfaction of our people, and the commitment to how much more we can do every day,” stated member of the Party Political Bureau and Minister of Public Health, Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, at a ceremony to mark the 59th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, where the principal results of the National Health System over 2017 were presented.
Press Release: Cuba rejects at UN a unilateral declaration of the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by the United States.
New York, 21 December 2017. Ambassador Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, made a statement during the resumption of the 10th emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly on "Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territories", held today.
Speech presented by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, 1st secretary Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, closure of National Assembly of People's Power 8th Legislature's 10th Period of Ordinary Sessions. Havana, December 21, 2017.
Compañeras and compañeros:
It is my responsibility to make the closing remarks for this last Period of Ordinary Sessions of the National Assembly of People's Power's 8th Legislature. On this occasion, I will address several topics of national and international relevance.
Between September 8 and 10, the country was struck by Hurricane Irma, described as the most powerful and violent extreme weather event in the history of the Atlantic Ocean, which impacted, to one degree or another, 12 provinces, with strong winds, heavy rain, and severe coastal flooding.
Declaration of the 16th ALBA-TCP Political Council (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP))
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the members countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), meeting in Havana, on the occasion of the 16th ALBA-TCP Political Council: