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A post-quarantine baby boom: Why reproductive health will be a concern

Public health researchers fear that the real impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on India's demographics will become apparent only after nine months

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A family health facility run by FRHS India in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Photo Courtesy: FRHS

4 min read Last Updated : May 23 2020 | 10:33 PM IST

A wag once said that it’s no coincidence that Children’s Day comes exactly nine months after Valentine’s Day. Today, in the same vein, public health researchers fear that the real impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on India’s demographics will become apparent only after nine months.

Which is why for VS Chandrashekar, CEO of Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India, or FRHS, India’s largest non-government provider of clinical family planning services and formerly known as Marie Stopes India, the exclusion of reproductive health from essential medical services allowed during the lockdown is deeply concerning. Pre-Covid, the Foundation used to

Topics : Coronavirus Lockdown women reproductive issues rural women Women health women empowerment Women health in India Women's rights Indian women childbirths Pregnant woman pregnancy

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