Fertility awareness week will be held in Hungary next week, when the attention of young people will be drawn to the fact that age and lifestyle have a significant impact on childbearing, said the parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry of the Interior at co -press conference in Budapest on. Wednesday.
Bence Rétvári announced, four NGOs – the “Egyyüt Könnyebb” Foundation for Women’s Health, the Society for Responsible Self-Care, the KétIgen Foundation and the Dr. Tamás Kőrösi Foundation – organized with the support of the Human Reproduction Group of the General Directorate of the National Hospital on April 23-27. between the week of fertility awareness in Budapest and several large rural towns.
Although infertility is now a popular disease, young people often do not think that they should deal with this issue, so I would like to give them the knowledge in a way that it’s easy to understand, through free programs, and to draw attention to the fact that age and lifestyle have an incredible impact on whether anyone can have a child – said the secretary of state.
Bence Rétvári also spoke that the government has taken many measures in recent years to provide infertility care to as many people as possible.
Infertility care was therefore centrally organised eight special infertility clinics were established, and infertility treatments were made free of charge and the options for intervention increased: although previously the state paid for a total of five interventions, now five interventions for the first child and four for the following are supported by the health insurance fund, explained the secretary of state.
As a result of everything, the number of infertility treatments increased from 5,000-5,700 per year to more than ten thousand, and the number of children born increased from 1,400-1,450 by 2018 to more than 2,300 a- now, he said.
Dóra Vestztergom, director general of the Institute of Human Reproduction of the General Directorate of the National Hospital, spoke about the fact that every sixth couple now struggles with fertility problems, which is why prevention is important .
That is why I would like to draw the attention of young people to the fact that they can change their lifestyle even before they have children, and then by choosing the right age to have as many children as possible they want, the general director emphasized.
MTI
