Inhuman act in Bihar: Two dozen women sterilized without anaesthesia, probe on

The victims suffered unbearable pain during and after the surgery

November 17, 2022

Health department has given the contract for family planning operations to NGO named ‘Global Development Initiative’

A shocking incident has come forth from the Bihar Health Department in Khagaria district on Wednesday, where around two dozen women were sterilized without anesthesia.

The women went to the Alauli and Parbatta health centres in the districts for a family planning operation on Wednesday. The medical staff pinned them down on the bed, held their hands and legs tightly, put cotton in their mouth, and performed the operation without anesthesia. The victims suffered unbearable pain during and after the surgery.

The Health Department has given the contract for family planning operations to the NGO named Global Development Initiative. The NGO is using a process called “tubectomy” to make the patients unconscious.

Amarnath Jha, the civil surgeon of Khagaria said: “We have initiated an inquiry into the matter and asked for an explanation from the NGO responsible for the inhuman act.”

“We have sought clarification from the NGO and also initiated the process of blacklisting it. Preliminary investigation reveals that the NGO was involved in an inhuman act,” Jha said.

The official said that it has not worked on the patients at the time of the operation. The state government is paying Rs.2100 for every tubectomy.

The official said that this act of the NGO is a criminal offence as they have risked the life of patients.

A similar incident took place in the Araria district in 2012 when 53 women underwent family planning operations without anesthesia. At that time, an FIR was registered against the errant medical officials and three of them were jailed.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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