BIRTHS HAVE REDUCED
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[12:22 pm] 13 June, 2006
The index of the birthrate has decreased in the Shirak region this
year. There were 820 births in the region in comparison with the 868
births of 2005.
According to Satenik Beybutyan, head of the Shirak region Health
Care Board, the reduction of the birthrate is mainly determined by
the emigration, terrible social-economic conditions and the wish of
the youth to have few children.
According to the Health Care Board the death rate has increased. Mainly
cancer and heart diseases prevail in the region. By the way, the
indexes of birthrate and death rate are considered to be inalterable.
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