In no other country so many women are sterilized as in India – often in dangerous assembly line operations. After one of these mass operations more patients now died.

In India at least eight women have died after a mass sterilization. More than 60 patients were taken to the hospital because of complications, many of them are in danger as a government representative of the state of Chhattisgarh told. The cause of the tragic outcome of the treatment is still unclear, four senior members of the health authorities have been suspended from duty.

As a means of birth control, the Indian state women offers a free sterilization. Consent to them, they get a reward equivalent of 18 euros. In Bilaspur district underwent on Saturday more than 80 women to the procedure. “Since Monday, the accumulated problems, more and more women were taken to hospitals with extreme nausea, low blood pressure and other problems,” said the local government representatives Sonmani Borah. Some doctors suspected that drugs administered after surgery may have played a role.

Many residents went on Tuesday in Bilaspur on the streets calling for rapid reconnaissance and immediate consequences for the treating physicians. According to the newspaper “Indian Express” the sterilization by a doctor and his assistant have been made within five hours. The senior medical officer told the paper that he could see no negligence in the work of his colleagues. Despite this complaint was filed against the responsible doctor now. The Government of Chhattisgarh also announced compensation for the families of the victims of the equivalent of € 5200 each.

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“The women went home, she became ill and had to be hospitalized again,” said one of the relatives. He and the others speak of botch: The hospital was under construction for years, it said there was hardly any technical aids.

“Immediately after the operation, the women usually simply placed on the ground,” says Kerry McBroom. She is the Director of the Division of Reproductive Rights in the Human Rights Law Network in New Delhi, which supports human rights in a lawsuit against these sterilization camps. Sometimes there is no running water or electricity. “In one of the camps in Bihar a doctor operated on 60 women in one night. Many were bleeding heavily after surgery. A woman was pregnant, she did not know, and it was not tested before sterilization. Ten days after the operation she had a miscarriage. ”

The national family planning program of the Indian government has traditionally focused on sterilization of women, since it is taboo in the patriarchal system of the country in men. Although the procedure is voluntary, cause birth rates and the incentives in some states over and over again to ensure that women are coerced to the OP. To provide local authorities pairs sometimes cars or household appliances to, should they agree to sterilization of women. This is then often made in facilities that are not equipped for such mass intervention.

Last year attended shots from West Bengal for outrage, was to see where, as dozens of unconscious women were simply stored for a mass sterilization on a field, because the hospital could not accommodate so many patients. Human Rights Watch called on the Indian government two years ago to set up an independent reporting system for forced sterilization or miserable standards in sterilization centers.

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