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. 2023 Sep 12;11(18):2520. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11182520

Table 1.

Episiotomy rate by country in the Western Pacific region 1.

Country National Hospital (%) Subnational Level Hospital (%)
Vietnam 2 71 70
Lao PDR 3 36 30
Cambodia 2 3 26
China 3 27 25
Mongolia 3 11 11
Papua New Guinea 2 0 23
Philippines 2 29 29
Solomon Islands 2 0 27

1 Data from 161 randomly selected health facilities implementing EENC in eight countries (National hospitals include 32 national/regional hospitals; Subnational level hospitals include 121 first level referral hospitals and 8 first level hospitals); 2 Data from 2017; 3 Data from 2016.