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hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

Thousands of Indian women are having their wombs removed in operations

that campaigners say are unnecessary and only performed to make money for unscrupulous private doctors.


Re: hindi hysterectomies - Anna - 02-06-2013

medical tourism


Re: hindi hysterectomies - Nargis - 02-06-2013

not only there

also north american women as well


Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

Sunita is uncertain of her exact age but thinks she's about 25 years old.  Smile

Her face hardens when she tells me about her operation.

"I went to the clinic because I had heavy bleeding during menstruation," she says.


Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

" The doctor did an ultrasound and said I might develop cancer.

He rushed me into having a hysterectomy that same day."


Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

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Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

Village leaders said about 90% of the village women have had the operation :

including many in their 20s and 30s.

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Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

Reports from a handful of Indian states :

including Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh,

suggest that an extraordinarily high number of women are having their uteruses removed,

including many below the age of 40.


Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

Dr Narendra Gupta, of the health charity, Prayas:

"People say that in some places, there are whole districts without uteruses,"


Re: hindi hysterectomies - ketchim - 02-06-2013

A second doctor told Rajanthi a hysterectomy was not an immediate necessity

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