Writer: Ryan Gilkes
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Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George says the Ministry of Health is concerned about the steady decline in Barbados’ birth rate over the last 10 years.
He has told a prenatal medical conference that in 2007, the country recorded 3,258 birth, but ten years later in 2017 the number of births recorded was just 2,346 – about a 15 per cent decline.
Dr George says this is worrying when combined with a fall in the total fertility rate, and universal access to contraception.
