According to the city maternity hospital today, September 6, this year 344 babies were born in the city and the district. If divided by days, it turns out that even two babies are not born per day. Alina Pavlyukova, a midwifery department nurse, checked last year's data, and there were 371 newborns on this date.
Doctors do not call the reasons for the decrease in the birth rate, but they are already understandable. Young people leave small cities for large ones or abroad in search of decent earnings. And young families living in Konstantinovka are not in a hurry to have children because of the unstable financial situation.
“I would have given birth to a second child,” - Liza Martynenko, twenty-five years old, says, - “but you cannot feed two children for the salary of a husband. And 860 UAH paid by the state per month is enough except for diapers. We will give birth when not only parents, but also the state will be interested in this..."
Read also: how much do people earn in the cities of Donetsk region.
