Ji'nan has three thousand or four thousand birth defects every year, the incidence of birth defects is about 5%.
source: reporter Yang Fang
"Ji'nan city is born every year about 70 thousand, of which birth defects are about 3000-4000, and the birth defect rate is about 5% a year." Yesterday, the person in charge of the maternal and child Department of the Ji'nan Municipal Health Bureau told reporters that the birth of these congenital defects not only caused a heavy mental and economic burden to the family and the society, but the children themselves also suffered huge pain, which has become a very prominent public health problem.
Jinhua, director of the prenatal diagnosis center of Ji'nan maternal and child health care hospital, told reporters yesterday that in fact, to avoid birth defects in fact, China has established a three level prevention system for birth defects (marriage inspection, screening, new screening), and more mature. But the reporter learned that the first barrier to prevent defective children is now having problems. With the abolition of compulsory premarital check-up, the population of free premarital examination has been greatly reduced.
in 2003, with the abolition of compulsory premarital check-up, many women's Insurance stations were available. In the following years, with the increase of birth defects, free premarital examination began in some places. Ji'nan is one of them. "Since 2010, the rate of premarital examination in Ji'nan has returned to around 12%, from 17% in 2012 to 21.76% last year." The director of maternal and child affairs of Ji'nan Municipal Health Bureau told reporters that despite the implementation of free Premarital Check-up, the rate of voluntary premarital examination in different regions is also very different. "The rate of premarital examination in Jiyang reached 87% last year, but the urban area is still relatively low. This may be related to Jiyang's marriage inspection and certification. Comparing the rate of premarital check ups in Ji'nan over the past few years, the number is moving higher. We hope this figure will reach 100%, so that some genetic diseases can be avoided.