The World Health Organisation has rejected a traditional birth intervention concerning labour wards around the world, and says it leads to excessive caesarean sections.
Among the twenty-six new recommendations, women in labour should be given more birthing time and have a larger chance to participate in decision-making.
Dr. Olufemi Oladapo, a medical officer in WHO's department of reproductive health and research, said more and more interventions were being applied necessarily to women.