Black children suddenly died and unexpectedly in a dream is 14 times higher than white children in the Kuk district in the period from 2019 to 2023 – an amazing inequality revealed in The report was released on Wednesday Officials of the district and health care.
“I know what it is like to be a black woman in America, so when I see such data, it shakes me up to my basis,” said Dr. Olushimbo Iga, Chicago State Health Commissar, during a press conference. “Babies die simply because mothers have no information and necessary support.”
In general, 208 babies in the Cook district suddenly died and unexpectedly during sleep between 2019 and 2023, and 99% of these deaths took place in sleeping situations that are considered unsafe for children, such as a dream with another person or a dream with soft bedding, including pillows, blankets or fillings of animals, according to a message.
The report was received as a result of joint efforts between the Office of the Medical Examination of the County County and the University of Rush to collect and analyze data on a sudden unexpected death among babies in the KUK district for five years. The sudden unexpected death of babies has long been called SVDS (sudden infant death syndrome). According to the new report, almost all cases of sudden unexpected death occurred during sleep.
Many of the deceased children were born prematurely, many of the mothers were young, and many lived in unstable housing, where, perhaps, they did not have a crib, and instead slept with their children, said Iga. Death took place most often in the South and West -Side communities.
Most children, 83%, died up to 6 months, and death aged 1 to 2 months.
About 66% of children died during sleep with another person, 93% died with soft bedding in their sleeping zones, and 16% died, temporarily away from their ordinary houses.
“This is really heartbreaking, because these deaths can be prevented,” said the president of the Council of the district Cook Tony Prakvinovka, standing against hundreds of yellow, representing children who died. Each of them had two tiny traces and initials of the deceased baby.
Although there is an inequality between black -white children who die in a dream throughout the country, this was especially pronounced in the Cook district.
Black children died at a speed three times higher than that of white children at the national level compared to a speed of 14 times higher than that of white children in the Cook County. Latin American children died at a speed twice as high as white children in the Cook County.
“We know that color communities are still the greatest burden, and that colored women are three times more likely to die from complications during pregnancy than white women,” said Dr. Kiran Joshi, chief department of public healthcare of the Cook Cook.
“This is not your fault,” he said to those who lost children. He said that inequality is associated with such factors as poverty, unstable housing, lack of access to medical care and systemic racism.
According to the report, the number of deaths from babies associated with sleep fell slightly in the Cook County, but Joshi emphasized that “there is too much death.”
The leaders of the district and healthcare emphasized the importance of Wednesday after they called ABCS safe sleep. Babies must sleep: a, one; B, on their back; And c, in a crib or a ram.
“I know that parents love their children,” said Dr. Kiran Quinlan from Rush, who said that he had been a pediatrician on the southern and western side for a long time and was part of the team standing behind the study. “Each of these deaths is a real tragedy … And if they knew how great it was risk, they would do everything they could. It is impossible to find out about this, although, because … you can’t hear about these mortal cases. ”
The fate of Tyler from Plainfield is trying to increase the awareness of the death related to sleep, among the infants, since her son Kayden Cherry died 11 years ago when he was 6 months old.
“I was just a young mother trying to understand this,” she said at a press conference on Wednesday. “I think that, like many other mothers, we feel that our child is the safest for us, because we do not know. The lack of education caused many losses. ”
For many years, Tyler shares his history in the hope of preventing more deaths. She called the numbers in the report published on Wednesday “shocking”.
“It’s sad to see that this is still ongoing, he is still not enough,” said Tyler.
In 2022, the team, which analyzed the sudden unexpected death of babies in the Cook County, established approaches to public partnership for safe sleep, the purpose of which is to teach families and members of the community about death from babies related to sleep, and partly thanks to partnerships with public organizations.
