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Press release No. N 009 of 15 February 2023 Nearly one third of births by Caesarean section in 2021
Roughly 237,000 women delivered by Caesarean in 2021, which means that nearly one out of three births in hospitals in Germany was by Caesarean section. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the Caesarean rate was 30.9% for the whole …
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Press release No. N 007 of 2 February 2023 World Cancer Day: record low of in-patient cancer treatments in 2021
In 2021, just under 1.44 million patients were treated for cancer in hospitals on an in-patient basis. The number of in-patient cancer treatments in the second Covid year thus fell to a record low within the last 20 years as reported by the Federal …