MORE women in Davao Region delivered live births in health facilities from 2013 to 2017, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority Region Davao Region showed.

“Seventy-four percent of live births in the five years preceding the survey were delivered in the health facility,” Ma. Leah Magracia, supervising statistical specialist, said during the 2017 National Demographic and Health Survey presentation Friday, October 19.

Compared to the 2008 data of the NDHS, live births delivered in health facilities were only at 63 percent.

In the distribution of percentage of live births, 51 percent of live births were delivered at Public Health Sector, 24 percent in private sector while giving birth at home was only at six percent.

The 52 percent during delivery were assisted by doctors while 25 percent by midwife and 16 percent by traditional birth attendants.