Indian botched sterilisations kill eight women in Chhattisgarh

(BBC) Eight women have died after undergoing sterilisation surgery at a health camp organised by the government in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

Thirty other women were admitted to hospital and doctors have said several are in a serious condition.

The tubectomy operations were carried out on Saturday on 83 women in Pendari village in Bilaspur district.

Officials have denied negligence, but villagers allege the surgeries were done hurriedly.

They said all the 83 women were operated on in just six hours by the sole doctor at the camp along with his assistant.

Bilaspur district health officer Dr RK Bhange told BBC Hindi: "The cause of the death would be known only after the post-mortem report is available."

The state government has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29999874


-- BBC 2014-11-11

They do it on 83 women. 8 are dead and 30 are in the hospital in serious condition. And they denied any negligence !!!!

Hardly surprising.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling. "Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

That is why I am a great believer in anybody coming to work in the UK as Doctors, medics, dentistry or suchlike. Should not be allowed to practice until they have been certified to UK standards.

I don't believe it.......

4 minutes and a bit for each operation?

This doctor should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The story is not right. 83 women, one doctor and his assistant, in 6 hours...that's one patient every 4 minutes....not even enough time to wash hands and sterilse equipment between patients.

The Indian doctors here were reusing colonoscopy tubes for the insertion of medication. They caused a heppitities outbreak and I live in Las Vegas Nevada . If I see an Indian doctor I run!

Hardly surprising.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling. "Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

That is why I am a great believer in anybody coming to work in the UK as Doctors, medics, dentistry or suchlike. Should not be allowed to practice until they have been certified to UK standards.

So am I, and many a time they have been coming and working on a mickey mouse certificate from a place un heard off, but life in those countries is considered worthless half the time, unless you are of status

Death toll now 11 with a further 20 listed as critical.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/indian-women-die-mass-sterilisation-camp

Hardly surprising.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling. "Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

That is why I am a great believer in anybody coming to work in the UK as Doctors, medics, dentistry or suchlike. Should not be allowed to practice until they have been certified to UK standards.

So am I, and many a time they have been coming and working on a mickey mouse certificate from a place un heard off, but life in those countries is considered worthless half the time, unless you are of status

Yet some of London's finest doctors are Indian.

Hardly surprising.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling. "Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

That is why I am a great believer in anybody coming to work in the UK as Doctors, medics, dentistry or suchlike. Should not be allowed to practice until they have been certified to UK standards.

So am I, and many a time they have been coming and working on a mickey mouse certificate from a place un heard off, but life in those countries is considered worthless half the time, unless you are of status

Yet some of London's finest doctors are Indian.

They may well be. Nobody is disputing that.

I'm sure the doctor in the OP is highly qualified from the University of Nowhere.

Hence my statement that anyone who wishes to practice as Doctors, Medics or Dentists should not be allowed to practice until they are qualified and certified to UK standards. Regardless of what qualifications that they may have from the University of Nowhere.

Hardly surprising.

"India's university system is in crisis," he began, lighting up and blowing the smoke towards the ceiling. "Cheating happens at every level. Students bribe to get admission and good results. Research students get professors to write their dissertations. And the professors cheat too, publishing articles in bogus journals."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843

That is why I am a great believer in anybody coming to work in the UK as Doctors, medics, dentistry or suchlike. Should not be allowed to practice until they have been certified to UK standards.

So am I, and many a time they have been coming and working on a mickey mouse certificate from a place un heard off, but life in those countries is considered worthless half the time, unless you are of status

Yet some of London's finest doctors are Indian.

And worst

Odisha: Doctor uses bicycle pump for sterilisation

Barely a fortnight has passed since the Chhatisgarh sterlisation botch-up , where 13 women lost their lives, but neighboring Odisha does not seem to have learnt a lesson from the tragedy.

A doctor used a bicycle pump to inflate the abdomen of 56 women while conducting laparoscopic tuberctomy during a sterilisation camp in Angul district, officials said on Sunday.

The camp was held at Banarpal village of the district, about 150 km from Bhubaneswar on friday. The doctor, Mahesh Prasad Rout, said that the practice of using bicycle pump in laparoscapic tubectomy – a surgical procedure women undergo for permanent contraception – was not new.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/odisha-doctor-uses-bicycle-pump-for-sterilisation/article1-1291767.aspx

Not enough medical knowledge to judge if this is actually serious or more of a case of making do with what's available. However, the mass nature of this surgical procedures, the sanitary conditions in which they are carried out - do not lend much confidence.

India cataracts scandal: Arrest over 'botched' surgery

A charity owner who organised cataract surgery in India has been arrested after 19 of his patients were left at risk of partial sight loss.

Officials suggested the patients had contracted infections at the charity's medical camp in Amritsar, Punjab state.

Manjit Joshi, who set up the camp, was detained by police.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30341213

More details here: http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/The-Dark-Hollows-of-Unsighted-Evil/2014/12/07/article2558878.ece