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14 Infants Die in Chhattisgarh, Health Minister Gives Clean Chit to Hospital
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Government Concedes Medicines Contained Rat Poison
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.
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Sterilisation Prohibited for Chhattisgarh's Baiga Women, Still They are Operated on to Meet Targets
Stertilisation of Baigas - a primitive and endangered tribe in Chhattisgarh - is prohibited. Yet, last week, 30-year-old Chaiti Bai became the 13th woman to die in the botched sterilizations of Bilaspur. She was also among the half-a-dozen women sterilized from Baigatola, a village nearly 100 km from Bilaspur.
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Rahul Gandhi Meets Families of Bilaspur Sterilisation Victims, Alleges Cover-Up
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Officials Admit Possibility of Presence of Pesticide in Medicines Given to Women
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisations Deaths: Rahul Gandhi Heads to Bilaspur Today
Rahul Gandhi will visit Pendari village in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh today, where botched sterilisation surgeries have left 13 women dead.
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Spurious Medicine Probable Cause of Sterilisation Deaths in Chhattisgarh: AIIMS Director to NDTV
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisations: Raman Singh Orders Judicial Probe, Bans Six Drugs
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has ordered a judicial probe into the botched operations at two government-run sterilization camps in Bilaspur. While the doctor involved in the Pendari camp, RK Gupta, got arrested, the government banned six drugs given to the women, suspecting they were spurious. Samples of the drugs will be sent for testin...
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AIIMS Team in Chhattisgarh to Probe Sterilisation Deaths: 10 Developments
A team of doctors from Delhi's AIIMS hospital are in Chhattisgarh today for investigations after the death of 11 women after a government-run sterilisation camp. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday and expressed concern over the botched sterilisations, which was linked to target-driven mass surgeries by a sus...
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14 Infants Die in Chhattisgarh, Health Minister Gives Clean Chit to Hospital
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Government Concedes Medicines Contained Rat Poison
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.
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Sterilisation Prohibited for Chhattisgarh's Baiga Women, Still They are Operated on to Meet Targets
Stertilisation of Baigas - a primitive and endangered tribe in Chhattisgarh - is prohibited. Yet, last week, 30-year-old Chaiti Bai became the 13th woman to die in the botched sterilizations of Bilaspur. She was also among the half-a-dozen women sterilized from Baigatola, a village nearly 100 km from Bilaspur.
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Rahul Gandhi Meets Families of Bilaspur Sterilisation Victims, Alleges Cover-Up
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisation Deaths: Officials Admit Possibility of Presence of Pesticide in Medicines Given to Women
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisations Deaths: Rahul Gandhi Heads to Bilaspur Today
Rahul Gandhi will visit Pendari village in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh today, where botched sterilisation surgeries have left 13 women dead.
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Spurious Medicine Probable Cause of Sterilisation Deaths in Chhattisgarh: AIIMS Director to NDTV
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.
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Chhattisgarh Sterilisations: Raman Singh Orders Judicial Probe, Bans Six Drugs
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has ordered a judicial probe into the botched operations at two government-run sterilization camps in Bilaspur. While the doctor involved in the Pendari camp, RK Gupta, got arrested, the government banned six drugs given to the women, suspecting they were spurious. Samples of the drugs will be sent for testin...
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AIIMS Team in Chhattisgarh to Probe Sterilisation Deaths: 10 Developments
A team of doctors from Delhi's AIIMS hospital are in Chhattisgarh today for investigations after the death of 11 women after a government-run sterilisation camp. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday and expressed concern over the botched sterilisations, which was linked to target-driven mass surgeries by a sus...
