8 women dead in India after government paid them $10 to be sterilized

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/11/eight-women-dead-20-others-seriously-ill-in-india-after-government-paid-them-10-to-be-sterilized/India has the world’s highest rate of sterilization among women, with about 37 per cent undergoing such operations compared to 29 per cent in China, according to 2006 statistics reported by the United Nations. During 2011-12, the government said 4.6 million Indian women were sterilized.


DELHI — Eight Indian women have died and 20 others were in critical condition Tuesday after undergoing sterilization surgeries in a free government-run program to help slow the country’s population growth.

A total of 83 women, all poor villagers under the age of 32, had the operations Saturday in a hospital outside Bilaspur city in the central state of Chhattisgarh, officials said. All 83 surgeries were conducted within six hours, said the state’s chief medical officer, Dr. S.K. Mandal.

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“Their condition is very serious. Blood pressure is low,” said Dr. Ramesh Murty at CIMS hospital, one of the facilities where the sick women were taken. “We are now concentrating on treating them, not on what caused this.”

The state suspended four government doctors, including the surgeon who performed the operations and the district’s chief medical officer. It also will give compensation payments of about $6,600 to each of the victims’ families.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Any kind of surgery should not be treated like an assembly line.

Sounds as though that mistake was done here.