Consequently, poverty and inequality increased in Latest Mailing Database those years. Successful parameters until the 1980s, such as the "mortality rate", with a tendency to decrease -although with a rebound during the crisis of the 1990s-, began to grow again. In the analysis of the variation of this parameter in Cuba, Mario Valdés Latest Mailing Database Navia explains that «between 2007 and 2008 there was a jump of 4,496 deaths, increasing from 81,927 to 86,423. Another peak occurred from 2016 to 2017, when the number of deaths rose from 99,388 to 106,949, that is, 7,561 more deaths. Since then it has continued to rise. In 2020 Latest Mailing Database there were 112,441 deaths. This represented 32,779 more deaths than in the worst year of the.
Special Period (1996), when 79,662 Cuban men Latest Mailing Database and women died. The researcher relates this increase in the mortality rate to two elements: “on the one hand, the lack of maintenance of hospitals, the reduction of municipal Latest Mailing Database services in many provinces and the shortage of medicines, supplies and equipment; on the other, the growth of inequality and poverty in the most vulnerable sectors of Cuban society». One of the affected hospital services was obstetrics. In March 2019, as a result of the celebration Latest Mailing Database of the X Congress of the FMC, I pointed out that a real concern for the conditions of Cuban women was not evidenced in the sessions, as it was not even mentioned.
The disappearance of obstetric care Latest Mailing Database programs in the municipalities where they existed, at least is what has happened in the province of Matanzas, and their concentration in the hospital of the provincial capital. This Latest Mailing Database has generated great overcrowding, despite the transfer of the center to a larger one, and families who live far from the city must pay out of the already precarious domestic economy Latest Mailing Database to cover transportation costs. Evidently something similar happened in all the provinces, and although the increase in infant and maternal mortality.