The caesarean section (C-section) versus normal delivery debate has made a comeback after Ministry of Women and Child Development wrote to Union Health Ministry to make it mandatory for hospitals to display their rate of caesarean. The move came after a petition on the change in an organization, which had received 1.3 lakh signatures, was submitted to Union Minister Maneka Gandhi against the abnormally high rate of C-section deliveries in India. However, most of the doctors say it is unfair to see a rise in C-section delivery rate in isolation as every pregnancy is different from other as it involves various factors.
Doctors in favor of this procedure argue that in this era when most of the patients attending to hospitals/private nursing homes have a single child family. This fact is worth mentioning because in such cases it becomes a precious pregnancy. Some parents are quite…
