Young mothers were congratulated on the holiday at the Vitebsk Regional Maternity Hospital

A festive congratulation to mothers took place on October 14 at the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Maternity Hospital.

To say the kindest words in connection with the addition to families, to express sincere wishes for health and well-being to the country's young citizens and their parents, and to present gifts, came the head of the main department for healthcare of the regional executive committee Mikhail Vishnevetsky and the chairman of the regional organization of the Belarusian Women's Union Galina Zhelanova. As noted by the chief physician of the maternity hospital Elena Leonovich, it has not happened in the institution for a long time that women who came here for their fifth child in the family gave birth on the same day. They began the congratulatory tour of the wards with them.

Margarita Khmelinina from Shumilino received congratulations on the birth of her son, and now the family, as in a fairy tale, has four sons and one darling daughter. Lepel resident Victoria Moiseenko accepted with a smile the wish not to stop and to come to the maternity hospital one more time for a daughter to have an equal count of three girls and three boys. It is noteworthy that representatives of their districts, heads of the Shumilino and Lepel district organizations of the Women's Union Svetlana Timoshenko and Natalia Stashkevich, came to Vitebsk to congratulate such large families. For additional gifts, they found sponsors among private organizations, because such a request cannot be ignored.
— Attention on Mother's Day is very pleasant, — said Margarita Khmelinina in response to the congratulations. — We thank the state for the constant support of large families, and many thanks to the doctors of the maternity hospital for their attention and help.

On this day, congratulations and memorable albums for the first photographs of their newborns were also received by those who became mothers for the first time, those who experienced this happiness for the second, fourth time. Among them is Anna Zemlyanko, an anesthesiologist nurse at the regional maternity hospital, who gave birth to her son, so to speak, without leaving her workplace. By the way, on the day of the Intercession itself, two girls and a boy were born in the maternity hospital.

In conclusion of the event, Mikhail Vishnevetsky noted in a conversation with journalists the importance of such meetings with mothers to support them and see their mood. Thanks to the systematic and well-thought-out state policy in this regionOver the past ten years, the number of repeat births has increased by 18 percent. From January 1, a regional group will start selecting women with infertility for IVF. All family support programs and the existing benefits system are aimed at strengthening demographic security, so that our women strive to have more children, and they grow up in happy, healthy, and prosperous families.
 

"Vitbichi".