Representatives Camila Flores, Yovana Ahumada, Catalina del Real, Carla Morales, Joanna Pérez and the Fën Foundation expressed the urgency of addressing the birth rate crisis facing the country.
Within the framework of International Fertility Care Month, deputies from different groups and the Chilean Society of Reproductive Medicine asked the authorities to implement solid programs for reproductive health and expand the coverage of fertility treatments in the health system.
In the instance, parliamentarian Camila Flores emphasized the urgency of addressing the birth rate crisis facing the country.
«We are calling for education, to raise awareness and make visible this issue that is so important. In our country, fewer children are born every day, the population is aging,” said the legislator.
In addition, he noted that currently “one in eight people in our country suffers from infertility and, therefore, cannot be parents. This is a very big topic. In a few more years this figure will be even higher, if measures are not taken from the point of view of the State, public and national policies, to reverse this situation. And the infertility situation will affect one in three people in our country.
For his part, Dr. Aníbal Scarella, president of the Chilean Society of Reproductive Medicine, emphasized the need for urgent measures to reverse the low birth rate. “Our country has a birth rate of 1.3 children per woman, when the population turnover rate stabilizes at 2. That is, we have a social problem, a political problem, a serious economic problem that we have to reverse,” he commented.
Dr. Scarella called on political authorities and civil society to take the problem seriously, stating that “we have a million people in our country who have infertility and who, for economic or access reasons, cannot access therapies.” reproductive that others can do. In this way, doing social justice, gender equality, we call on the authority to support the measures to reverse this trend that is so important for our country.
