Over the last decade, there has been an alarming rise in the caesarean deliveries in India. The private hospitals, especially, have shown a significant increase as oppose to the public hospitals that registered a dip in the number of caesarean deliveries. According to National Family Health Survery-4, the private hospitals saw 40.9 per cent of caesarean surgeries in 2015-16 as compared to 27.7 per cent in the last decade (2005-06). In the public hospitals, however, 11.9 per cent caesarean deliveries took place in 2015-16, a decline from 15.2 per cent in 2005-06.
