Yahoo – AFP,
11 Nov 2014
Raipur (India) (AFP) - Eight women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, many in a critical condition after a state-run mass sterilisation, a local official said on Tuesday.
A woman sweeps outside her hut in a village in central India's state of Chhattisgarh (AFP Photo/Manpreet Romana) |
Raipur (India) (AFP) - Eight women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, many in a critical condition after a state-run mass sterilisation, a local official said on Tuesday.
Many of the
more than 80 women who underwent sterilisation at the free government-run camp
in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Saturday fell ill shortly afterwards,
the official told AFP.
"Reports
of a drop in pulse, vomiting and other ailments started pouring in on Monday
from the women who underwent surgery," said Sonmani Borah, the
commissioner for Bilaspur district where the camp was held.
"Since
Monday eight women have died and 64 are in various hospitals."
Television
footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious
relatives by their side.
Borah said
authorities would investigate the incident.
Local
governments in India often offer incentives such as cars and electrical goods
to couples volunteering for sterilisation to try to control the country's
billion-plus population.
Authorities
in eastern India came under fire last year after a news channel unearthed
footage showing scores of women dumped unconscious in a field following a mass
sterilisation.
The women
had all undergone surgical procedures at a hospital that local officials said
was not equipped to accommodate such a large number of patients.
The Indian
Express daily said the surgeries in Chhattisgarh were carried out by one doctor
and his assistant in around five hours.
"There
was no negligence. He is a senior doctor. We will probe (the incident),"
the chief medical officer of Bilaspur R.K. Bhange told the newspaper.
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