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Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population spokesperson, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, announced on Friday that the percentage of "medically unjustified" caesarean childbirth is more than 62 percent of total deliveries in Egypt. Abdel-Ghaffar noted that unnecessary caesarean deliveries (C-sections), which are deliveries that could have been performed naturally, result in higher chances of placing the newborn baby in an incubator. The number of total caesarean delivers in Egypt increased to 72 percent from 52 percent in 2014, according to the Central Agency…
