Data collected from the Ministry of Health for Standard care
All hospitals are required to submit data to the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare for several health indicators. Data were extracted from
these records for the number of deliveries, the number of vaginal
deliveries, the number of caesarean sections done at night (this was
taken as proxy for intrapartum caesarean sections although actual number
would have been higher as the intrapartum caesarean sections during the
day are not reported separately), the number of stillbirths (which
included both antenatal and intrapartum deaths occurring after 28 week
gestation, quantified together, as the data is reported as a composite),
the number of early and late neonatal deaths and, finally, the number of
maternal deaths occurring during the same time period at the same
hospital as the study duration.