But it is enough of a problem that hospitals in Calgary ask for a $15,000 deposit up front
Although birth tourism in Canadian hospitals represents less than one percent of babies born in this country, one Calgary doctor wants to discourage the practice, saying the births are becoming an added weight to an already overwhelmed Canadian healthcare system.
As a healthcare system we are suffering from a capacity point of view and the expectation is to do more with less, he said. “It’s a very honest and upfront system,” said Birch. “It doesn’t pay the hospital fees. It’s a deposit which pays basically physician fees.”“We wanted to discourage the practice because it was becoming a bigger burden in Calgary,” said Birch. “The potential problem with that is the patients will then start moving to practitioners who are outside the city limits.
“There’s a large undocumented population in the country,” he said. They are contributing members of society but are not documented, Birch said.Birth tourism is not just a medical issue but a social issue that should be addressed, he said. At the other end of Canada in Vancouver, much of the same occurred at Richmond Hospital. In 2022, there were 22 non-resident deliveries. This number accounts for 1.5 per cent of the total deliveries at the hospital.
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