C-Section should be done by a doctor and mostly only in women with high-risk pregnancies. [File, Standard]
Kenya is recording a high number of women delivering through Caesarian Section, but with dire consequences including death.
Besides Kenya, other African countries have similar gloomy outcomes: one in every 100 women who deliver via CS, die, according to the Lancet medical journal.
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