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06 Feb 2013 13:28 #121397
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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.
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06 Feb 2013 13:32 #121400
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Sunita is uncertain of her exact age but
thinks she's about 25 years old.
Her face hardens when she tells me about her operation.
"I went to the clinic because I had heavy bleeding during menstruation," she says.
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06 Feb 2013 13:33 #121401
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" The doctor did an ultrasound and said I might develop cancer.
He rushed me into having a hysterectomy that same day."
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06 Feb 2013 13:37 #121404
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Village leaders said about 90% of the village women have had the operation :
including many in their 20s and 30s.
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06 Feb 2013 13:39 #121405
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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.
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06 Feb 2013 13:40 #121407
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Dr Narendra Gupta, of the health charity, Prayas:
"People say that in some places, there are whole districts without uteruses,"
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