Gauteng hospitals have no data on illegal and botched abortions
1 March 2017
The Gauteng Health Department has released statistics on abortions in state hospitals and clinics in a written reply to my questions in the Legislature, but has no information at all on illegal and botched abortions.
There has been a decline in legal abortions, from 20 796 abortions performed in 2013 to 16 736 in 2016.
More risky abortions performed after 12 weeks pregnancy were as follows:
2013 - 3575