Up to 2200 foreign women, many of them driven across the border by poor medical care and inadequate hospital facilities in their home countries, travelled to Hungary
Hungary has reciprocal healthcare agreements with Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, and the former Soviet republics. The increase in women travelling to Hungary to give birth has not placed a strain on the country's obstetric facilities because there has been a decline in the birth rate during recent years.
