Vijayawada, April 5 -- Andhra Pradesh Minister for Health Satya Kumar Yadav on Saturday emphasised the need of reducing cesarean deliveries and adding that most of the cesarean deliveries take place in private hospitals.
In a release here, the minister informed that 68 percent of cesarean deliveries were performed in private hospitals and underlined the need of reducing them to 40 percent.
The Minister said that the rate of teenage pregnancy in the state is about 9 percent and the target is to reduce it to 3 percent.
Yadav said the government has identified the problems of maternal health due to teenage pregnancy, malnutrition, high number of caesarean births, large number of family planning operations for women, and frequent deliveries....