The prospective randomised control study was conducted at the Military Hospital Rawalpindi's
Gynaecology & Obstetrics Department from January 2006 to April 2008. It comprised 100 patients who were given
a mediolateral episiotomy at the crowning of the foetal head (group 1). Another group of 100 patients were
delivered without an episiotomy (group 2). Postpartum morbidity was compared in the two groups. Morbidity
included perineal damage by tears, subjective assessment of pain at perineum, dyspareunia after puerperium,
feeling of pressure puerperium, incontinence and objective assessment of prolapse after puerperium.