Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths

Opinion: Caste. Will India Ever Get Over It?

Opinion | Subhashini Ali | Wednesday December 10, 2014

A fourth of India is guilty, writes Subhashini Ali.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Tragedy: Doctor Gets Bail

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 4, 2014

The Bilaspur High Court today granted bail to Dr RK Gupta, an accused in the Chhattisgarh sterilisation surgery case in which 12 women lost their life in the district last month.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Government Concedes Medicines Contained Rat Poison

India News | Reported by Siddharth Ranjan Das; Edited by Shyam Balasubramanian | Sunday November 23, 2014

Two weeks after the botched sterilisation deaths in Chhattisgarh, Health Minister Amar Agarwal says Ciprocin-500 tablets given to victims contained zinc phosphide, which is used as rat poison.

India Matters: Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths - The Needle of Suspicion

India News | Written by Sutapa Deb | Saturday November 22, 2014

It is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. The death of 13 women, after being operated upon at a sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh, points to the fact that something happened to them medically. The needle of suspicion is constantly shifting, and nothing is what it seems.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Tragedy: For the Children of the Victims, There are No Answers

India News | Written by Siddharth Ranjan Das | Saturday November 22, 2014

It has been over ten days since 13 women lost their lives after a mass sterilisation at a camp organised by the Chhattisgarh government in Bilaspur.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Drug Company Had Faced Action Earlier

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday November 17, 2014

Mahawar Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, the supplier of allegedly substandard medicines given to the victims of sterilisation camps in Bilaspur district, had earlier faced action for poor quality of its products.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Officials Admit Possibility of Presence of Pesticide in Medicines Given to Women

India News | Written by Siddharth Ranjan Das | Saturday November 15, 2014

Five days after botched sterilisation surgeries in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, claimed lives of 13 women, the administration has officially admitted a strong possibility of the presence of zinc phosphide in the Ciprocin 500 tablets allegedly manufactured by Mahawar Pharmaceuticals, a drug company and given to the women in the camps.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisations Deaths: Rahul Gandhi Heads to Bilaspur Today

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday November 15, 2014

Rahul Gandhi will visit Pendari village in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh today, where botched sterilisation surgeries have left 13 women dead.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Drug Company's Director, Son Arrested

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 14, 2014

The director of a drug company, which allegedly supplied sub-standard medicines that were administered to the victims of sterilisation surgeries in Chhattisgarh, and his son were today arrested.

Doctor Arrested for Sterilisation Deaths Alleges Pressure to Meet Targets; Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Orders Judicial Probe

India News | Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday November 13, 2014

The doctor who performed mass sterilization surgeries in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, after which 11 women died, has been arrested and charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Doctor Arrested, Alleges Pressure to Meet Targets

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday November 13, 2014

The doctor who performed mass sterilization surgeries in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, after which 11 women died, has been arrested. Dr RK Gupta was picked up for questioning last night.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Doctor Who Operated on 83 Women in Police Custody

India News | Siddharth Ranjan Das | Thursday November 13, 2014

The doctor who conducted sterilisation surgeries on 83 women at Bilaspur's Nemi Chand Jain hospital has been taken into police custody. Doctor RK Gupta was taken into custody from the Baloda Bazar area, nearly 70 km from Bilaspur, last night.

Chhattisgarh Sterilization Deaths: Better Financial Incentives, Promised Centre's Letter Just Weeks Ago

India News | Reported by Um-E-Kulsoom Shariff, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday November 12, 2014

Three weeks before the deaths in Chhattisgarh after mass sterilization surgeries believed to be driven by targets, the central government had, in a letter, said that compensation would be doubled for men and women who agree to these surgeries.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Hospital Was Shut Since April, Has no Basic Infrastructure

India News | Reported by Siddharth Ranjan Das, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Wednesday November 12, 2014

The Nemi Chand hospital in Bilaspur's Pendari, where operations to sterilise 83 women were conducted on Saturday, had not been functioning since April. It does not even have the most basic infrastructure - beds or stretchers or surgical equipment.

Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Doctor Was Awarded for 100,000 Surgeries

India News | Reported by Siddharth Ranjan Das, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday November 12, 2014

The doctor involved in the sterilization camp in Chhattisgarh that led to 11 deaths, was awarded earlier this year for a record 100,000 such surgeries in his career.