Sterilisation Deaths

Around 40,000 dogs have been sterilised in Noida since 2017, an official said on Tuesday, as debate intensified over checking the canine menance after an infant was mauled to death by a stray.

As many as four women who attended the Double Puncture Laparoscopy (DPL) sterilization camp at a government hospital in Ranga Reddy district in Telangana five days ago died, officials said on Tuesday.

She wanted her son to get an education and rise above their humble means, but those dreams were dashed on Tuesday when seven-year-old Mamoon was attacked and killed by a pack of dogs near their home in south Delhi.

Almost a month after 13 women died in botched sterilisation operations in Bilaspur, over a dozen neo-natal deaths have been reported from the area.

A fourth of India is guilty, writes Subhashini Ali.

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.

Two doctors have been booked for negligence in connection with the death of a 25-year-old woman who died at a sterilisation camp organised by the Haryana health department on November 25, police said today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Chhattisgarh government of trying to "cover-up" after he met the victims of botched sterilisation surgeries in Bilaspur that have left 13 women dead and said corruption had a "role" in the tragedy.

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.

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

While investigations continue into botched operations at two government-run sterilisation camps in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur, AIIMS director M C Misra today said that a probable cause of the tragedy could be spurious medicines.

Around 40,000 dogs have been sterilised in Noida since 2017, an official said on Tuesday, as debate intensified over checking the canine menance after an infant was mauled to death by a stray.

As many as four women who attended the Double Puncture Laparoscopy (DPL) sterilization camp at a government hospital in Ranga Reddy district in Telangana five days ago died, officials said on Tuesday.

She wanted her son to get an education and rise above their humble means, but those dreams were dashed on Tuesday when seven-year-old Mamoon was attacked and killed by a pack of dogs near their home in south Delhi.

Almost a month after 13 women died in botched sterilisation operations in Bilaspur, over a dozen neo-natal deaths have been reported from the area.

A fourth of India is guilty, writes Subhashini Ali.

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.

Two doctors have been booked for negligence in connection with the death of a 25-year-old woman who died at a sterilisation camp organised by the Haryana health department on November 25, police said today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Chhattisgarh government of trying to "cover-up" after he met the victims of botched sterilisation surgeries in Bilaspur that have left 13 women dead and said corruption had a "role" in the tragedy.

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.

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

While investigations continue into botched operations at two government-run sterilisation camps in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur, AIIMS director M C Misra today said that a probable cause of the tragedy could be spurious medicines.