DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The announcement in April 2025 that Haitian women giving birth here could continue to do so but would be deported once they recovered has resulted in a considerable decline in births in Dominican public hospitals.

The director of the National Health Service (SNS) that coordinates public hospitals confirmed that the new migratory protocol being implemented has led to a dramatic decrease in births by Haitian women. He shared the statistics during an interview for the Weekly Lunch of the Corripio Communications Group.

Lama said that the new protocol for attending to foreign patients is aimed at making hospitals more sustainable and curbing what officials describe as a “mafia” facilitating these births.

Previously, some hospitals, like the Hospital General de Verón, serving the Punta Cana area, reported that 90% of births there were to Haitian women before the new measures took effect.

“In Verón, over 90% of births were to foreign Haitian women,” Lama stated, highlighting...