Escambray newspaper reported in its digital web site that Sancti Spiritus holds the merit of introducing the research on determining biotinidasa, galactocemia and adrenal hyperplasia.

Those adrenal disorders cause mentally retarded children and other syndromes negative for life quality.

The biochemical determination starting from samples taken to the newborn between the third and fifth day will make possible to avoid the appearance of clinical symptoms.

The disorders could be corrected with adequate treatment use to affected people providing them a healthy life.

The commercializing enterprise director, Ruben Rosquete emphasized that the province has the necessary diagnosis aids and treatment facilities for those diseases.

Those achievements represent a step forward in the work developed in Sancti Spiritus in favor of the mother-child health care program which reached its highest point with the success of a 3.3 mortality rate per every one thousand children born alive.

The use of these new services of inquiry and congenital diseases early detection is a step Cuba hopes to finish in 2005, asserted the source.

By: Prensa-Latina