on 12-04-2015 12:08 PM
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.
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.
on 12-04-2015 02:56 PM
The % of c-sections performed in a country, for example, in a year, would include those that were performed as a necessity and those that may have been a personal choice.
Those statistics wouldn't be able to show how many were personal choice.
on 12-04-2015 03:14 PM
What is the percentage of those who opt for a c-section for cosmetic reasons?
not sure but WHO felt it was important
to address the 'epidemic'
Friday’s recommendations were the first specific call by the WHO to stop childbirth by caesarean except when it is medically necessary.
on 12-04-2015 05:08 PM
Who?
on 12-04-2015 05:14 PM
on 12-04-2015 05:21 PM
WHO - World Health Organisation.
The same people who dropped the ball big time re Ebola and comlletely and utterly fumbled the response.
And that was what the UN WHO said about itself in it's own report
Why don't they fix up the serious problems, including their own incompetence instead of trying to dictate to
"Rich 1st world White countries" on who, what, where and how in regards to everything from refugess to Child birth ?