Delivering a baby surgically instead of via natural childbirth is not new, but a Chinese man’s attack on doctors who refused to give his wife a caesarean has abruptly – and violently – put the procedure’s growing use in China in the spotlight.
Gynaecologist He Yingdong suffered a fractured jaw and eye sockets after he and two colleagues were beaten up by the woman’s husband in September at Peking University First Hospital, Beijing police said. The fracas started when the woman’s husband, surnamed Zheng, was told by He that his wife, 44, should not undergo a caesarean on medical grounds.