Healthcare: Eurostat:Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria, in the first places in the EU at birth by Caesarean section
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
In 2017, caesarean sections, in other words, the delivery of one or more babies through an incision in a mother’s abdomen and uterus, were performed at least 1.4 million times in the EU, Eurostat data show. Caesareans were most frequent in Cyprus (54.8 % of all live births in 2017), followed by Romania (44.1%), Bulgaria (43.1%), Poland (39.3%) and Hungary (37.3%), and the least in Finland (16.5%), Sweden (16.6%), Estonia and Lithuania (both ...