Due to the declining number of births in Poland, the Health Ministry is considering the possibility of closing delivery wards that do not meet certain criteria for the number of births. According to the draft regulation, smaller medical centers with fewer than 30 births per month and fewer than 400 per year could be closed. In the West Pomeranian region, nine hospitals are potentially affected.
Declining number of births - a need for change?
The president of the Regional Medical Council in Szczecin, Michal Bulsa, stresses that demographics are inexorable, and the number of births in Poland has been declining for years. As he notes, the statistics cannot be ignored: "We are currently talking about a certain probability, which the Ministry of Health justifies with statistics, and as you know, it is difficult to argue with mathematics. The birth rate is declining, there are fewer and fewer births, maintain...
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