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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Soon, hospitals may have to list C-section data -Mohua Das

Soon, hospitals may have to list C-section data -Mohua Das

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published Published on May 28, 2017   modified Modified on May 28, 2017
-The Times of India

MUMBAI: The government is in the process of drafting a clause that makes it mandatory for hospitals empanelled under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) to publicly display the number of Caesarean section and normal deliveries they have carried out. The move comes after the Centre received a citizen's' petition in February which drew attention to the alarming rise in the number of C-sections in India, mainly in private hospitals.

CGHS has empanelled many private hospitals across the country, especially in metro cities like Mumbai and Delhi, to provide specialized healthcare to its employees. Over 60 private hospitals are empanelled in New Delhi alone. CGHS officials have made it clear that these private hospitals too will have to display the C-section statistics.

"The empanelment clause is reworked every two to three years and we want to incorporate a guideline under which hospitals and diagnostic centres empanelled under CGHS will be asked to display the statistical percentage of C-sections conducted in their hospitals so that people at large are sensitized," a senior CGHS official told TOI.

The petition started by Subarna Ghosh, a Mumbai-based research scholar at SNDT University, clocked in over 1,63,000 signatures over the past three months through the internet advocacy platform change.org.

It drew the attention of women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi, who raised the issue in a letter to the health ministry, asking them to make it a mandatory provision for hospitals under CGHS.

Ghosh's appeal came amid suspicions that Caesarean deliveries had become a business and some hospitals and doctors were nudging would-be parents towards needless surgical deliveries. In the petition, Ghosh had recounted her personal story of undergoing a C-section in Kolkata 18 years ago. Even though serious complications were not detected, she was cut open to deliver her baby. "It was presented to be more 'scientific, modern and risk-free'. I was misled, manipulated, confused and my choice was overridden," she had claimed.

An RTI filed in June 2016 revealed that C-section deliveries in Mumbai had doubled from 16.7% in 2010 to 32.1% in 2015. Also, C-section deliveries in private hospitals were 200% higher than those in government hospitals.

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The Times of India, 28 May, 2017, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/soon-hospitals-may-have-to-list-c-section-data/articleshow/58876090.cms


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