The Baby Slump: The Fear Of Plummeting Birth Rates Looms Over India
It was almost a decade ago when Dr Bandana Pradhan Subba was pursuing a fellowship in reproductive medicine in Guwahati’s Institute of Human Reproduction, a well-known in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre in the city, that she began to notice the vast numbers of patients from her home state Sikkim doing the rounds of IVF clinics in the city. “It was very moving to see them so far away from home,” Dr Subba says. “Many had quit their jobs so they could stay for extended periods to continue with their IVF treatment. A lot of them were under pressure and their marriages were under stress because they were childless.”
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- 24 Apr 2026
- WerIndia
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