NewsWhore
06-15-2009, 04:10 PM
The DR has the second highest rate of caesarean births in Latin America, at 44.3% of all births. Puerto Rico tops the region with 49%. Listin Diario reports that although the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that C-sections should only be done in between 10% and 15% of all births, in the DR that figure is more than triple, with almost one out of every two births involving the surgical procedure. The number of caesarean births in the DR exceeds those of larger countries in the region like Mexico (37.8%), Argentina (35,2%), Brazil (44.2%) and Colombia (26.7%).
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