Closure of maternity wards fuels Chinese debate over population decline

BertramDitore , 9 months ago

Huh, maybe telling people when they can and can’t have children is a bad idea in general?

The one child policy was in place until 2016, this has gotta be one of the byproducts of that shortsighted attempt at population control.

autotldr Bot , 9 months ago

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The slump is fuelling a demographic crisis in China, with an ageing and shrinking population that threatens to derail the country’s GDP growth.

China’s leaders are keenly aware of the problems caused by a greying population, and officials have introduced a range of measures to try to boost the birthrate.

In April, a health centre in Guangxi province said that it would stop offering deliveries in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit because of the increasing number of high-risk pregnancies in the district.

Last month, the Second hospital of Yinzhou, a district in the eastern city of Ningbo, announced that it would no longer be offering maternal diagnosis and treatment services.

Two clinics in Huizhou, and one in Guangzhou, have suspended overnight services in their maternal health wards because of a lack of obstetricians and gynaecologists, according to the Paper.

In an article published on NetEase, a Chinese content provider, a blogger with the username “Say it quickly” wrote: “The deserted obstetrics departments means that fewer women are getting pregnant … [China’s] newborn population has been declining in recent years, and the situation is not optimistic”.

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