Russian Primorsky Krai Health Minister suggests making children during "Work Breaks"

Primorsky Krai Health Minister Yevgeny Shestopalov called on residents of the region to engage in procreation "during work breaks."

In his opinion, this will help improve the demographic situation.

"We cannot divide society into those who give birth and take care of children, and those who make the economy. And being very busy at work is not an excuse: you can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly," the minister said in an interview with FederalPress at the Eastern Economic Forum.

He added that you need to have as many children as "God sends."

Shestopalov noted that work is not a reason to refuse procreation, and children can be taken to the workplace with you.

"Who will forbid it if my child wants to sit in the office and draw?" the minister explained. He also emphasized that he took his child to work with him when he worked as a doctor: no one was against it.