India, Jan. 16 -- The Unicef research found that weak public health infrastructure, a mushrooming private health sector and social prestige were behind the rapid increase in C-sections in the state

Caesarean sections (C-sections) are becoming the new normal in Telangana, with the state seeing a sharp rise in this method of delivering babies in recent years, a study commissioned by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has found.

The ideal rate for C-Sections anywhere should be between 10 and 15 per cent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Fifty-eight per cent of deliveries in Telangana were C-section ones, the latest National Family Health Survey reported in 2016. Seventy-five per cent of total deliveries taking pl...