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Take steps to reduce C-section deliveries: Health department to doctors
Updated On: 23 December, 2022 06:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey
Tells medical professionals to follow criteria for such deliveries that was modified in 2017
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Doctors say fear of labour pain, parents wanting muhurat-based birth are reasons for increase in caesarean deliveries. Representation pic
The increasing number of caesarean deliveries in Maharashtra has prompted the state health department to again remind Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) to ask its members to follow the modified criteria for deliveries as announced in 2017 to help reduce the number of C-section deliveries.
As per data from the state health department, private hospitals across the state conducted 7,88,882 deliveries in the 2017-18. Of this, 1,88,963 or 24 per cent were C-sections. This year till October, the number of deliveries at private hospitals across the state stood at 5,00,461 of which 1,76,126 or 35 per cent were caesarean deliveries. This means the state saw a 9 per cent rise in C-section deliveries in the past six years.
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