A girl is the first baby born in Sofia in 2024. She was delivered at the University Maternity Hospital "Maichin Dom", Dr Emil Garchev, the obstetrician-gynaecologist on duty at the maternity ward, told BNR. He added that a total of four children were..
The number of births at Sofia’s Maichin Dom maternity hospital is up compared to last year. Almost 1,700 babies have been born since the beginning of the year, 100 more girls than boys, the hospital says. During the past 6 months an average of..
Inadequate control is the reason for swapped babies in Sofia's Sheynovo Maternity Hospital. This was established by the inspection of the "Medical Supervision" agency. No one in the chain at the hospital noticed that the babies and mothers had..
The first baby born in 2023 in Bulgaria is a boy and weighs 3430 grams. He was born in Plovdiv exactly at 00:01 and was named Yoan. Seconds after him, another boy was also born in Sofia, weighing 3300 grams and the happy parents..
Pregnant women from Ukraine, running from war, find refuge and support in Bulgaria. Fate has ordained that their babies be born in a Bulgarian maternity hospital, making Bulgaria the country of their birth. Four Ukrainian babies have been born..
The D epartment of O bstetrics and Gynecology at the Multi-profile Hospital for Active Treatment in Troyan was closed on Monday, because its medical staff tested positive for Covid-19 and was placed under a mandatory quarantine. It will remain closed..
58,393 babies were born in Bulgaria in 2021, including 29,921 baby boys and 28,472 baby girls. Sofia tops the ranking with 13,168 newborn babies and Vidin is at the bottom of the ranking with only 525 babies born last year, data of the National..
The “Caps for the Future” initiative is holding its 9 th campaign throughout the country. The campaign involves collecting plastic bottle caps and turning them into a valuable resource and, with the money raised from recycling them, helping to..
“Mothers for Donation”- this is how a group of Bulgarian women, who have been working to encourage birth, named their volunteer foundation. The donation of genetic material by young and healthy people, usually by people who already became parents, is a..
In 2017 a total of 57 175 babies were born in Bulgaria. This way Bulgaria has marked a record-low birth rate for the whole period after 1945. In the period January 2017 to January 2018, babies born in this country were nearly 8,000 less than in 2016...
