Iran's Ministry of Health has stopped providing contraceptive services

The population official at the Iranian Ministry of Health, noting that population growth has fallen below one percent and that "the demographic window is closing," said: "Among the actions of this ministry in recent years is that it does not provide contraceptive services and has also abandoned its previous recommendation of a three-year gap between two children."

Hamed Barakati, Director General of the Population and Family Health Office of the Ministry of Health, said in an interview with IRNA that the population growth rate in Iran has dropped below one percent for the first time and is currently 96 percent.

According to Hamed Barakati, the Ministry of Health has taken steps to increase the population in the last four years, including increasing the number of infertility treatment centers from 12 to 44.

He also said that the provision of contraceptive services in government centers has been stopped, and the previous recommendation of the Ministry of Health to observe three to five years as a safe interval between pregnancies has been reduced to 18 to 24 months.

Since Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, called for an increase in the population in Iran, a number of health and medical services have been suspended and health and medical policies have also changed in Iran.

Source: Radio Farda