Table 1.

Numbers of caesarean sections in different categories and maternal and perinatal mortality

	No of caesarean sections	No (%) of maternal deaths	No (%) of perinatal deaths
Hospital:
District	5236	68 (1.3)	710 (13.6)
Urban	2834	17 (0.6)	197 (7.0)
Uterus:
Ruptured	333	35 (11)	285 (86)
Not ruptured	7737	50 (0.65)	622 (8)
Surgeon:
Medically qualified	2814	18 (0.64)	224 (8.0)
Clinical officer	5256	67 (1.3)	682 (13.0)
Anaesthetist:
Trained	7367	68 (0.9)	823 (11.2)
Untrained	703	17 (2.4)	84 (12)
Anaesthesia:
Spinal	3136	4 (0.13)	141 (4.5)
General	4934	79 (1.6)	760 (15.4)