Hospitals In China Shut Down Newborn Delivery Services

Several hospitals in China have stopped providing newborn delivery services in the current year. best hospital in china

Hospitals in some provinces have recently announced the closure of their obstetric departments.,.

The Fifth People’s Hospital of Ganzhou City in Jiangxi, one of the best hospital in china announced on its official WeChat account that obstetric services will be temporarily suspended starting March 11th of this year.

Also, Zhejiang’s Jiangshan Hospital of Traditional Medicine announced on its WeChat page that its obstetrics business would stop by February 1st.

The most recent available data from China’s National Health Commission showed the number of maternity hospitals dropped to 793 in 2021 from 807 in 2020.

According to industry experts, there is a warning of an “obstetric winter” due to a record drop in new births.

The closures come as Chinese policymakers grapple with how to boost young couples’ desire to have children as authorities face the growing demographic headache of a rapidly aging society

Due to the low birth rate record and high deaths caused by COVID-19, China’s population decreased in 2023.

Local media said the plummeting number of newborns meant that many hospitals couldn’t keep operating their obstetrics departments.

Authorities have tried to roll out incentives and measures to boost the birth rate, including expanding maternity leave, financial and tax benefits for having children, and housing subsidies.