During the first nine months of 2024, the Repository of Information and Statistics of Health Services (Riess)coordinated by the National Health Service (SNS), registers 63,787 birthsof which, 41,777 belong to Dominican mothers (65.5%) and 34.3% (21,881 births) are to mothers of Haitian origin.
During this period, September It is the month with the greatest number of enlightenmentsboth of parturients Dominican and Haitian, with 9,990 births: 6,059 to local mothers and 3,900 to mothers from the neighboring nation.
These figures are very similar to those recorded in September of the year 2023, when at that time, the Riess reported 10,329 births: 6,458 Dominicans and 3,848 Haitians.
Hospitals favorites
As for the hospitals favorites for the parturients Haitians, the Maternity Our Lady of Altagraciain the National District, occupies first place, serving 5,426 pregnant women since the beginning of the year, with 42.4% of Haitian mothers, equivalent to 2,303 births. The total of births Dominicans total 3,102, 57.2% of the births registered in this hospital.
It is followed by Maternity Saint Lorenzo de Los Mina, in Santo Domingo Este, with 4,228 births So far in 2024, 51.9% (2,194) to Dominican citizens and 48% (2,030) to citizens of Haitian origin.
In Santiagoin it Hospital Star Ureña, of the 3,837 enlightenments registered, 48.3% correspond to Haitian mothers (1,855 births).
In fourth place is the Hospital Our Lady of Altagraciain Higüey, where a very particular phenomenon occurs, since the amount of parturients Haitians is almost double that of Creole pregnant women: 63.8% of the 1,675 births counted in 2024 are attributed to Haitian mothers (1,069 births), having registered only 605 births of Dominican mothers, for a 36% quota in said health center.
On a recent visit to the Los Mina Maternity Hospital, the Diario Libre team observed a considerable presence of Haitian women in labor.
“Everything is the same, you don’t see how they are, they are all there,” said a hospital employee when asked if the presence of Haitian patients had decreased after the mass deportations by the General Directorate of Immigration began.
However, another collaborator assured that in the hospitalization area there has been a decrease, with greater availability of beds for Dominican parturients.
