The Church in India has expressed shock over the deaths of more than a dozen young mothers in government-run sterilisation camps in central Chhattisgarh state.
“This is terrible,” Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu, chairman of the healthcare commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, told Catholic News Service.
“It is not enough to punish the guilty responsible for this shocking tragedy. The systemic faults behind this tragedy must be exposed and corrected,” said Archbishop Mallavarapu.
While 12 of the 83 poor village women who underwent free government sterilisations at a private hospital in Bilaspur died of subsequent medical complications after being sent home, local government officials said at least 20 more women were critical and were being treated in different hospitals.
Meanwhile, another young mother who attended a similar sterilization camp also died on November 12, raising the death toll to 13…Read More
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