India, March 25 -- Odisha witnessed a spike in caesarean deliveries at private hospitals as over 2.13 lakh babies have been born through the C-section in last 2 years.

This was revealed by Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling in a reply to BJP MLA Tankadhar Tripathy's query in Assembly today. As per data shared by the Minister in the House, there were total 6,00,740 deliveries registered in 2022-23 fiscal and 5,91,185 in 2023-24 fiscal in hospitals both government and private, of which 4,17,297 (69.46%) and 3,95,607 (66.91%) were normal in 2022-23 and 2023-24 FYs respectively.

While total 9,22,711 deliveries (4,71,652 in 2022-23 FY and 4,51,059 in 2023-24 FY) were registered in last 2 fiscals in government hospitals, 7,...