Over 15,175 caesarean
deliveries were performed in 2007, 31 percent of the total number of
births, Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva revealed yesterday
According to the findings of a research carried out by the Family
Health Bureau, over a number of years on ‘safe pregnancy,’ it was
discovered that the number of caesarean operations exceeded even the
numbers defined by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Minister said that considering this large number it was evident
that the caesarean sections had been performed mainly for monetary
reasons.
De Silva called on the Family Health Bureau to carry out yet another
research to discover the reason for the enormous number of caesarean
births in Sri Lanka.
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