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At 41 Per Cent, Rate Of C-Sections In Private Hospitals ‘Considerably Higher’ Than WHO Standards: Health Ministry
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The union health ministry has informed the Parliament the rate of Caesarean sections (C-sec) in private hospitals of the country is considerably higher than World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations which stand at 10 to 15 per cent.
Forty-one per cent births at private hospitals are through C-sec operations as against 12 per cent at government hospitals according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family welfare, reports New Indian Express.
In response to a question by Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Jai Prakash Narain Yadav in the Lok Sabha, the ministry has reportedly said that the rate of C-Sec procedures in the country is considerably higher in the private sector than the WHO-recommended rate of 10-15 per cent.
“Health being a state subject, it is for the states to act on such incidents,” he added
An IIM Ahmedabad study had earlier claimed that almost 9 lakh out of the 70 lakh C-Sec procedures were utterly “unnecessary”.
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