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A year into its term, the Congress-led State government appears to be devoid of any concrete ideas on how to address the crisis of cesarean pregnancies in Telangana State

Based on the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-20), Telangana tops the nation in caesarean sections. In urban centres of Telangana, 65 per cent of pregnancies and in rural areas 59% of the pregnancies are caesarean sections.

The officials said that they would initially inspect 14 hospitals at the district centre before expanding the inspections to other areas.

For the first time in the State, since this October, C-sections being taken up in private and government hospitals have recorded a drop.

Quality healthcare services being extended to pregnant women in Telangana are getting noticed in neighbouring States

Hyderabad: To encourage normal deliveries and curb C-sections in the government hospitals, the health department will take the help of Panchangam experts, who are much-sought after by would-be parents to come up with the exact ‘muhurtam’ (auspicious day and time) so that pregnant women can undergo caesarean section and deliver the baby. To this effect, […]

According to UNICEF’s statistics, more than 92.8 per cent of deliveries in the district were through C-section