Health Ministry asks private hospitals to display data of C-Section and normal deliveries

In a bid to tackle the abnormal rise in caesarean section operations in India, Health Ministry has directed all private hospitals to present data of Caesarean and normal deliveries prominently.

Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi has expressed her concerns to Union Health Minister JP Nadda asking him to make it mandatory for private hospitals empanelled with the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) to display the data of C-section and normal deliveries.

According to the reports, Gandhi has pointed out that while the recommendation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggests that deliveries through C-Section should normally be in the range of 10-15 per cent of the total deliveries, the percentage is 54 and 34, respectively, in states like Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

Read more: AIIMS seats vacant, may hire retired professors on contract as faculty

She has also asseretd that repeated C-section surgeries will also affect the reproductive health of a woman.