‘Fashionable’ C-Section Deliveries Rising

Dorcas Makgato said doctors, especially in private practice, tend to promote C-sections and the rates have become recklessly high.

Though Makgato did not provide current statistics of surgical births in the country, she said, “C-sections must be performed only when it is necessary, but they have now become elective and fashionable”. When asked where the worrying trend is rampant, Makgato said certainly not in public health facilities. Her concern is how C-sections have become an elective procedure based on convenience instead of medical reasons.