Comportamiento del bajo peso al nacer en el Policlínico Universitario Héroes del Moncada (2006-2010) / Behavior of low birth weight in the Héroes del Moncada University Polyclinic (2006-2010)

Introducción: el bajo peso al nacer es un indicador que incide de forma directa en la mortalidad infantil, y en el posterior desarrollo psicomotor del niño. El Programa para la Reducción del Bajo Peso al Nacer, señala que los niños nacidos con un peso inferior a los 2 500 g, presentan riesgo de mortalidad 40 veces mayor, durante el primer año de vida, en comparación con los niños que nacen con un peso normal a término. ..

Introduction: the low birth weight is an indicator that influence directly on the infant mortality and in the latter psychomotor development of the child. The Program for Reduction of the Low Birth Weight suggest that the children with a birth weight lower than 2 500 g have a death risk greater during the first year of life, compared with the children with a term normal weight. ..

El medico que o ha desaparecido / The doctor that has not vanished

Going though his notes, conferences, speeches, we found his entire legacy for the formation and practice of a doctor. He expressed: “…The need of studying, the need of interchange with medical letters”. In August 16th, 1960; during the Cycle of Public Health Conferences, he noted: “to be a revolutionary doctor, or to be a revolutionary, the first thing we must have is a revolution” He said: “The doctor, the medical worker, must go to the centre of his new job, which is the man within the conglomerate.” He states: “Every doctor, in his circle of action, must accumulate that precious treasure which is the people’s gratitude”.