The work inside the Neonatology service requires constant observation of the tiniest detail in that newborn who appropriates breathing, feeding, and adaptation to the outside environment. There, specialized attention nestles hundreds of infants who cling to the hope of living.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- As part of the work of the Maternal and Infant Care Program (PAMI), this service in Las Tunas is among the best of its kind in the country, with a 99.7 percent survival rate of the total number of admissions, the raison d'être of the nurses and specialists, says Dr. Yodalys Cedeño Ramírez, head of the provincial Neonatology service at Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna General Teaching Hospital.

Inside the hospital, 95 percent of children under 1,500 grams are born, "which is due to the close working relationship with the Perinatology service in the management of full-term, good-weight and near-term children. These newborns evolve favorably after the interruption at the right time, resulting in both services being outstanding in the country," said Cedeño Ramírez.

Incubators, ventilation, and monitoring equipment set the scene at the facility, which assumes the mother's visit to promote the skin-to-skin method, the precise words to transmit love and the heartbeat in constant accompaniment to her baby in those hours that seem endless for the family.

This year more than 160 babies, 26 percent of them preterm, 38.6 percent with low birth weight, 34 babies with intrauterine growth retardation, 12 babies under 1,500 grams, and two children under 1,000 grams," he explained.

A multidisciplinary team united for saving and delivering to society little ones who do not have sequels and who will be the joy of their families.