According to the data obtained, in 2023, infant mortality fell to 5.5 per thousand live births, when in 2022 it was 6.6 per thousand live births.
Mendoza has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the country and in the last 5 years it has achieved a 20% decrease, despite macroeconomic conditions. These achievements have been achieved through a series of health policies sustained over time and that will be anchored thanks to the new 2024 health plan. In 2023, infant mortality fell to 5.5 per thousand live births, when in 2022 it was 6.6 per thousand live births.
An achievement that deserves to be highlighted is the decrease in home infant mortality, which about 10 years ago in Mendoza was a problem, which became the second province with the highest home mortality and, in the last five years, it has decreased and arrived in 2023 to not have any home deaths. This implies the continuity of care from the maternity ward to the health centers through prioritized shifts and the commitment of the health teams when granting discharges to children at high social and biological risk.
In Mendoza, 72% of infant deaths occur within the first 28 days of life, as in the rest of the country, but a significant decrease has been achieved in terms of neonatal mortality: currently, 4 per thousand live births.
This, without a doubt, has to do with the management of premature patients thanks to neonatology teams that have continuous training, both for nurses and doctors. On the other hand, we must highlight access to technology for all children due to perinatal regionalization that allows each baby to be born in its corresponding place according to its complexity.
It should be mentioned that there was an increase in the survival of babies born with less than 1,500 grams, which has reached an average of 75% in general and 83% when born in IIIB maternities (Lagomaggiore and Schestakow), which indicates that We must continue with efforts so that all high-risk pregnancies are cared for in these maternity hospitals, where health teams are trained in the management of these patients and have the supplies and technology according to their needs.
The birth rate has continued with a less pronounced decline than before, but in 2023, births were 20,051 (about 1,200 less than the previous year) and, in the public sector, 96% were carried out in hospitals that have obstetric and neonatal conditions. essential, which make them safe maternities.
General statistics
1) Births: total: 20,051
· State sector: 11,832 births (60% of total births)
· Private sector: 8,210 births (40% of total births)
· Live births under 1,500 g: total 211; They represented 1% of births and had a survival of 75%.
· Births of low birth weight children (less than 2,500 grams): 7.4%
· Live births to teenage mothers: 7.7%, with 38 births to mothers under 15 years of age.
· Live births of mothers aged 35 years or older: they represent 18% of births.
· Total births in maternities with CONE: 82%
· Births with CONE in the public sector: 96.4%
· Births with CONE in the private sector: 61%
2) Child deaths: 111 children
· Infant Mortality Rate: 5.5 per thousand live births
· Neonatal Mortality Rate: 4 per thousand live births
· Postneonatal infant mortality rate: 1.5 per thousand live births.
· Infant mortality rate in children of adolescent mothers: 9 per thousand live births
· Infant Mortality Rate in children of mothers over 35 years of age: 6.33 per thousand live births.
· The causes of infant deaths were: perinatal (52%), malformations (34%); external 5.1%, infectious 3% and others (6%).
· There were 4 child deaths from external causes: two due to traffic accidents and two due to child abuse. There were no other out-of-hospital causes of death.
3) Reason for maternal death:
· 1.5 per ten thousand live births. Three women died; One death was of indirect cause (heart disease) and the other two were direct: sepsis and hemorrhage due to uterine atony.
