India, Sept. 9 -- The district commissioner of Assam's Morigaon district has served a show-cause notice to a senior physician for performing 21 C-section (cesarean) operations within ten hours, raising concerns over the health and safety of mothers and newborns.

The notice, signed by additional district commissioner (Health) Nitisha Bora, was served on September 6 to senior gynaecologist Dr Kantheswar Bordoloi, who also serves as senior medical and health officer at Morigaon Civil Hospital.

According to the notice, Dr Bordoloi performed 21 emergency lower segment caesarean section (LSCS) deliveries within ten hours, between 3:40pm on September 5 and 1:50am on September 6, at the hospital's major operating theatre.

The doctor has been a...