A small French town is to offer expectant mothers 1,000 euros from next year to give birth at the local maternity ward in a bid to save it from closing.
The initiative from January 1 comes as birth rates dwindle nationwide, and countryside hospitals increasingly close their maternity units.
The labour ward in Saint-Amand-Montrond in central France is among around 20 in the country that doe
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