THE UN’s World Health Organisation has warned that too many women in developing and wealthy countries are resorting unnecessarily to caesarean sections to give birth.
Other pregnant women with a real medical need for a C-section simply do not have access to the operation, the WHO added.
“In a lot of developing and developed countries, there is really an epidemic of caesarean sections, even when there is no medical need,” said Marleen Temmerman, director of the WHO’s reproductive health department.
In countries like Brazil, where some 53 per cent of births are by C-section according to WHO figures, “there is a culture of ‘let’s go for caesarean’,” Temmerman added.
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, almost one in three babies were born via caesarean section in 2011.
Rates have risen sharply in Australia over the past two decades - from 18 percent in 1991 to 32 percent in 2011.
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C-sections should only be considered in cases of risk to the mother and her unborn child.
I question the ethics of a Surgeon who engages in this type of surgery, simply for cosmetic reasons or to fit in with an agenda.
