Abstract
Rising Cesarean Section Rates in Nepal: Question of safety and Integrity on Obstetric Emergency Practice
Highlights
A cesarean section is life-saving obstetric emergency surgical intervention essential when certain complications arise during pregnancy and labour without its access the large number of women and their unborn babies die every year, especially in low-income countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that no region in the world is justified in having a cesarean section rate greater than 10-15% [1]
A 2015 WHO statement concludes that cesarean sections are effective in saving maternal and infants’ lives, but only when they are required for medically indicated reasons
Summary
A cesarean section is life-saving obstetric emergency surgical intervention essential when certain complications arise during pregnancy and labour without its access the large number of women and their unborn babies die every year, especially in low-income countries. A 2015 WHO statement concludes that cesarean sections are effective in saving maternal and infants’ lives, but only when they are required for medically indicated reasons. Cesarean section born babies are more likely to have long-term negative health effects, such as asthma, type-1 diabetes, obesity, metabolic diseases and lead to unexplained stillbirths in the second pregnancy [3,17,18,19,20]. These risks explain why cesarean on demand or without any maternal and fetus conditions is. Multi factorial reasons implicated in rising cesarean sections rates, it has become a major public health concern and a cause for the debate as it is recognized as the violence of human rights of childbearing women
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