{"id":9229,"date":"2017-04-03T18:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2017-04-03T18:44:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:14:14","slug":"majority-of-surgeries-done-in-kashmir-for-financial-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9229","title":{"rendered":"Majority of surgeries done in Kashmir for financial gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"id_58e24a139827f2917244464\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong><em>There is a well-oiled nexus between private hospitals and doctors that is pushing patients into cesareans they don\u2019t need.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Raising concern over unnecessary cesarean deliveries that have reached epidemic proportions in Kashmir, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that majorit<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">y of these surgeries are done for financial gains.<br \/>\nTerming this practice as unethical, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that doctors are motivated by money to perform needless surgical deliveries.<br \/>\nThere is a well-oiled nexus between private hospitals and doctors that is pushing patients into cesareans they don\u2019t need.<br \/>\nA perception has been generated that cesareans are better than normal deliveries.<br \/>\nIn order to convince perfectly healthy women to opt for elective cesarean section before their due date, doctors tell them about so called benefits of the surgery.<br \/>\nFirst time mothers are especially targeted because if a woman has a C-section once, she would need surgeries for subsequent pregnancies.<br \/>\nDoctors are paid much more money for a surgical procedure than a normal delivery and hospitals rake in money for patients\u2019 longer stay and other related services.<br \/>\nBirth has become a lucrative business and private hospitals earn up to Rs 50,000 on a cesarean package.<br \/>\nA cesarean is less time consuming and more profitable.<br \/>\nA doctor would do 12 cesareans in the time it takes to attend one normal delivery.<br \/>\nIn government hospitals also, surgical births have increased dramatically.<br \/>\nTo learn the technique, postgraduate students perform cesareans when they are not required.<br \/>\nAccording to \u201cWHO\u201d, C-sections should only be performed if either the baby\u2019s or mother\u2019s life is in mortal peril.<br \/>\nWhile WHO states that cesarean delivery rates should be no higher than 10%, but the rates at Kashmir hospitals are as high as 80%.<br \/>\nResearch suggests that unnecessary cesareans are risky for both mother and child.<br \/>\nStudies indicate that the chance of maternal mortality is 4-5 times more after an elective cesarean than a normal delivery.<br \/>\nIn a study published in \u201cBMJ\u201d, Researchers found that cesarean babies were up to 4 times more likely to have respiratory problems.<br \/>\n\u201cThe natural birth is the ideal way and if it was better to deliver through the stomach, nature would have surely made it so\u201d.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a well-oiled nexus between private hospitals and doctors that is pushing patients into cesareans they don\u2019t need. Srinagar: Raising concern over unnecessary cesarean deliveries that have reached epidemic proportions in Kashmir, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that majority of these surgeries are done for financial gains. 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