Santa Claus presents newborns to Vitebsk mothers

December 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In Vitebsk, during the New Year holidays, Santa Claus brings babies to parents instead of a stork. Despite a heavy workload and a tight schedule, Santa Claus, along with his Snow Maiden, manages to visit Vitebsk City Maternity Hospital No. 1 to present happy parents with their main New Year's gift upon discharge - a heartwarming envelope with a newborn. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the chief physician of the healthcare institution, Elena Leonovich. Since December 20, Santa Claus has already presented more than 70 babies to Vitebsk residents, with two families receiving twins. The grandfather and granddaughter will have to work as a stork and cabbage, which does not grow in winter, until the Old New Year. In total, from January to November of the current year, 11,560 children were born in the Vitebsk region, or 102.9% compared to the same period last year. In the regional center, 3,558 children were born in eleven months (102.6%). The highest birth rate during this period was recorded in Liozno, Verkhnedvinsk, and Shumilino districts, according to the Committee for Labor, Employment, and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. -0-