Surge in C-section deliveries during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-sectional study in Gujarat, India.

BMJ Public Health · 2025 · PMC12542720 · PMID 41133253

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22 In contrast, this percentage is slightly higher than that reported in other studies conducted during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary teaching hospital in the west coast of Gujarat (28.4%), which showed a decreasing trend in CS in the last 4 years (in 2021: 33.65%; in 2020: 33.28%, in 2019: 33.04%), 23 and in a study conducted during the same time period in Kurdistan Province, Iran.

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