C-sections are more risky

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According to statistics, there is a marked increase in health risks associated with C-section births. According to El Caribe, data shows a 12% to 20% increased risk of death over normal births. According to the paper the increased risks are due to post-partum infections, damage to the uterus and cardiac and pulmonary arrests. According to Enriquillo Matos, the president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), this reality "is a delicate inconvenience within gynecological-obstetric medicine; we must try and substantially reduce the number of caesarian section births in the Dominican Republic." Data from the 1970s, a time when there were fewer C-sections, indicates that the death rate was lower. In the Dominican Republic, most of these deaths occur in private health facilities. Of the average 300 deaths each year, those occurring in women who gave birth by caesarian section were as much as 20% greater in number than for normal births.

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