The Ministry of Public Health has delivered 100 incubators, 350 cradles, 48 monitors, 23 laryngoscopes and 329 helmets as part of an effort to reduce child mortality to 17 per thousand by 2015. Listin Diario reports that the hospitals receiving the equipment were Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia, Robert Reid Cabral, San Lorenzo in Los Mina, and Luis Eduardo Aybar in Santo Domingo, and Jose Cabral y Baez, Arturo Grullon and Juan XXIII in Santiago. Also, Dr. Pascasio Toribio in Salcedo, Dr. Leopoldo Martinez in Hato Mayor, Antonio Musa in San Pedro de Macoris, and Engombe and Villa Mella in Santo Domingo. Public Health Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez reported that 62% of child deaths occur during the first 28 days after birth.