Hospital achieves the lowest mother and infant mortality rate

Santo Domingo‹ The Dr Reynaldo Almánzar Maternity Hospital announced this tuesday that during the 2013 fiscal year, it achieved a mother and infant mortality rate of 1.2% per 1000 live births, the highest rate in the country and Latin America. Rafael Draper, director of the healthcare center, announced that within 7 months of service they had attended to 1,647 births, with the majority of patients being low-income women from the provinces of Santo Domingo, Monte Plata and the National District.
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El Caribe
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