Hyderabad: Telangana state tops in C-sections in the country with 74.9 per cent of such cases reported in private hospitals and 40.6 per cent of cases in the public sector according to the recently concluded National Family Health Survey-4.
Karminagar and Nalgonda districts have reported 63 and 68 per cent C-Sections in the private sector while Hyderabad had 40 per cent.
The rising incidence of Caesarean sections is a cause for concern as the World Health Organisation has recommended that it must not be more than 10 per cent in the country.
Dr Dinesh Baswal, Deputy Commissioner of Maternal Health, Union health ministry, said, “C-section is for women who need it due to medical indications. But we have seen a lot of social causes leading to a rise in C-sections where astrologers’ time and date are being considered for the birth of the child. This is a disturbing trend.”
Dr Buddha Prakash, commissioner of health and family welfare, Telangana state, explained, “We have to take an audit of the records of private hospitals and understand why these C-sections were done.”
