The first delivery of 2022 at the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital Maternity, in Beja, it was that of a boy that occurred more than twenty hours after entering the new year..
Afonso was born were 20,16 hours this Saturday and resulted from a normal operative delivery is done using a vacuum extractor that consists of using a small suction cup, instrument used to facilitate the baby's exit from the birth canal.
The boy is the first child of a couple who reside in Beja.
Afonso's birth is considered the latest that happened on the first day of the year at the Maternity Hospital in Beja.
Hospital de Beja with a negative record of births in 2020
The very late birth of the first baby of the year, the only one verified in the Maternity of the Hospital de Beja and the entry of only two parturients, can be seen in the light of data relating to births in the region in 2020, when last year's data are not yet known.
In 2021 were born 992 babies, in the maternity hospital of José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in Beja. This number corresponds to 488 boys and 504 girls. In December of the same year they were born 72 babies (40 boys and 32 girls). In the same period of 2019, there is a record of 77 births.
the number of births, in the year of 2019, was slightly superior (1072) when compared to 2018 (1049). Still the numbers tend to decrease since 1990, when it was verified 1433 births.
In 2020, there was a drop in the number of births in Portugal. In the Alentejo there were until the month of October, inclusive, a slight increase in 15 births. In that month there had been no drop in the number of births compared to 2019 and with what happened in the country, where according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE) there was a reduction of 2218 births.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
