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Bilaspur on the boil after sterilisation row
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Thirteen women have died, dozens more remain in hospital and 20 are critically ill after the operations performed by a doctor accused of using rusty equipment in a dirty operating room, highlighting the dangers of the world's largest surgical contraception programme. (PTI Photo)
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Woman wails inside an ambulance outside Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) hospital in Bilaspur. (Reuters Photo)
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Relatives mourn death of women who died after she underwent sterilization surgeries, at Dhruv Ameri village in Bilaspur. (PTI Photo)
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Villagers protesting outside the state health minister's residence against sterilization surgeries, in Bilaspur. (PTI Photo)
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RK Gupta, the doctor who performed surgeries at a sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh, at a police station in Bilaspur. At least 13 women died after the botched surgeries, triggering angry protests. (Reuters photo)
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Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh went to the hospital to meet the ailing women whose conditions turned critical following the mass steralisation in Bilaspur. HT photo
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A woman (R), who underwent a botched sterilisation surgery at a government mass sterilisation 'camp', is moved to Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences hospital from a district hospital in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. (Reuters)
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